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1. Increase the likelihood of
   "ask for trouble";
   - invite
    
2. Express the need or desire for
   "when you call, always ask for Mary";
   - request, bespeak, call for, quest

Derived forms: asked for, asking for, asks for

Type of: arouse, communicate, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, fire, kindle, pass, pass along, pass on, provoke, put across, raise