Interrogate
[ɪn'terəgeɪt] or [ɪn'tɛrəɡet]
Definition
(verb.) pose a series of questions to; 'The suspect was questioned by the police'; 'We questioned the survivor about the details of the explosion'.
(verb.) transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication.
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Definition
(v. t.) To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness.
(v. i.) To ask questions.
(n.) An interrogation; a question.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Question, catechise, examine, ask, inquire of, put questions to.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See QUESTION]
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Examples
- It would have been of as much avail to interrogate any stone face outside the chateau as to interrogate that face of his. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Anybody may interrogate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Interrogate now the three natures, and each one will be found praising his own pleasures and depreciating those of others. Plato. The Republic.
- Her extreme habitual reserve would rarely permit her to talk freely or to interrogate others closely. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was told it was done at night by the janitor, who was sent for, and upon being interrogated as to what light he used, said that he turned on a central fixture containing about ten lights. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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