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interrogate
[ in-ter-uh-geyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
Synonyms:
- to examine by questions; question formally:
The police captain interrogated the suspect.
- to analyze (an idea or belief), especially by thoroughly and dispassionately questioning its underlying assumptions:
The antiwork movement seeks to interrogate the concept of work as we know it today.
verb (used without object)
- to ask questions, especially formally or officially:
the right to interrogate.
interrogate
/ ɪˈɛəˌɡɪ /
verb
- to ask questions (of), esp to question (a witness in court, spy, etc) closely
Derived Forms
- ˈٱˌپԲ, adverb
Other yvlog Forms
- ·ٱ··· [in-, ter, -, uh, -g, uh, -b, uh, l], adjective
- ·ٱ···Բ· adverb
- ·ٱ·· [in-ter-, uh, -, gee], noun
- ··ٱ··ٱ verb reinterrogated reinterrogating
- un··ٱ··· adjective
- ܲ··ٱ··· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of interrogate1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of interrogate1
Example Sentences
Mr Lee remembers walking through campus one day, when they saw a girl being interrogated by two plain clothes policemen.
He claimed he was interrogated over 15 hours, before being released.
While Pagels’ love affair with evangelical Christianity lasted only a year, her curiosity about the “powerful responses” that stories about Jesus evoked in her persisted; interrogating that response became her life’s work.
Another officer soon whisked her away to a different room, where she was searched and interrogated.
The panel also spent much of Friday's hearing interrogating the merits of Griffin's incomplete voter registration petition.
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