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Answer for the clue "Ask advice of ", 7 letters:
consult

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Word definitions for consult in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. get or ask advice from; "Consult your local broker"; "They had to consult before arriving at a decision" [syn: confer with ] seek information from; "You should consult the dictionary"; "refer to your notes" [syn: refer , look up ] when planning or deciding ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES check/consult your watch ▪ He checked his watch and saw that it was only 2.15. consult a dictionary formal (= check something in a dictionary ) ▪ Consult the dictionary for examples of how a word is used. consulting ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Consult \Con*sult"\, v. t. To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary. Men forgot, or feared, to consult nature . . .; they were content to consult ...

Usage examples of consult.

He had not only the responsibility of ensuring safe passage to France, but he was to consult with the Honorable John Adams on all important decisions.

He thanks her obliquely but gratefully by consulting her on the adaptor notion.

Mahomet assured them that on his return to Adrianople he would redress the grievances, and consult the true interests, of the Greeks.

On consulting notes taken at random in the literature of Africa, I find them replete with similar facts--of aids convoked to take in the crops, of houses built by all inhabitants of the village-- sometimes to repair the havoc done by civilized filibusters-- of people aiding each other in case of accident, protecting the traveller, and so on.

He consulted an allergist about once a year and the rest of the time the refill on the medication was, automatically okayed.

After consulting with Kate, Sarchi substituted an oral antifungal for the one Gilbert had been receiving intravenously, and she shipped the boy back to Brunswick.

It is often said that Europe owed much to the Arabs for this, but careful analysis of the factors in that progress shows that very little came from the Arabs that was good, while not a little that was unfortunate in its influence was borrowed from them with the translations of the Greek authors from that language, which constituted the main, indeed often the only, reason why Arabian writers were consulted.

Chief Computerman frequently consulted with, or simply visited with, the Astrogator at such times.

Across the court, a thin, blue-suited figure with a gray crewcut, Sergei Forward the Finnish-born bacteriologist, was consulting with his lawyer.

Lord Middlethorpe, who had just consulted his pocket watch, it was precisely six minutes after eleven in the evening, and Susannah Ballister knew quite well that the day was Thursday and the date was January the twenty-seventh, the year eighteen hundred and fourteen.

It happened, as to the private Bastiles, that the women at last recognized a change in the sociological and political atmosphere of the world, and without consulting any men of affairs or caring for their opinion, down went the Bastiles.

As for the professor, he drove back to London, saw a handful of patients at his consulting rooms, performed a delicate and difficult brain operation at the hospital and returned to his elegant home in a backwater of Belgravia to eat his dinner and then go to his study to catch up on his post.

At a meeting with FBI negotiator Max Bhagat and the SEAL commanders, whose names she had to consult her memo pad to keep straight.

The common minor ailments of domestic animals can be treated biochemically with most gratifying results but in the event of serious disease, or if the symptoms are in any way unusual, you should immediately consult a veterinary practitioner.

In desperation, Bondo had even sunk to consulting an alchemist, who filled his palace with unpleasant odors and his ears with gibberish, accomplished nothing, and demanded a purse of gold for his nugatory services.