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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

ask the impossible en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To request or expect something that is too difficult.
    • To ask too much now would be to ask the impossible. 2019, Miriam Focaccia, Pietro Blaserna and the Birth of the Institute of Physics in Rome, page 114:
    • What I ask is, will you use your influence within your Party? I do not ask the impossible, though I might from you, for you have done the impossible. 2022, Inez Haynes Gillmore, The Story of the Woman's Party:
    • We ask the impossible of our law enforcement agencies, we ask the impossible of our health and rehabilitative agencies, and we confuse the public even further. 1975, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Drug Abuse Office and Treatment Act Amendments of 1975, page 199:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
asked the impossible Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
asked the impossible Tense=Past lexicographic
asking the impossible Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
asks the impossible Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

do the impossible · ask for the moon

Translations (4)

fr demander l'impossible (Translations) · pl żądać niemożliwego (Translations) · fi pyytää mahdottomia (Translations) · de das Unmögliche verlangen (Translations)