Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To examine by questioning formally or officially. synonym: ask.
- transitive verb Computers To transmit a signal for setting off an appropriate response.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A question; an interrogation.
- To question; examine by asking questions: as, to
interrogate a witness. - Synonyms Inquire, Question, etc. (see ask); catechize.
- To ask questions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To ask questions.
- noun obsolete An interrogation; a question.
- transitive verb To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
question orquiz , especially in athorough oraggressive manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication
- verb pose a series of questions to
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As it happens in this utter jumble of a plot, their conversation takes place nearby exactly the sort of man Jonah likes to interrogate, that is, a dead one.
PopMatters 2010
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3. Pick a word or phrase from the definition and interrogate it.
The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010
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3. Pick a word or phrase from the definition and interrogate it.
The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010
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3. Pick a word or phrase from the definition and interrogate it.
The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010
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3. Pick a word or phrase from the definition and interrogate it.
The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010
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Well, I'm no FBI expert but if you catch a guy possibly responsible for 100+ deaths by a biotoxic, I have a feeling more than one agent would "interrogate" you.
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Was the robotic surgeon programmed to heal me, or was it drugging me so they could "interrogate" me?
Who Do You Say I Am 2010
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This is generally stuff I've been too liberal artfully educated to not say anything about (Seizer's STIGMA class for the * headdesk*), or, in more ivory tower terms, "interrogate".
What's Best for the Oppressed, #0: Intro! zhukora1 2008
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Most of the efforts to "interrogate" the canon over the past two decades have not really questioned the need for heirarchy in organizing literary study.
Canonical Writers 2008
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Don't call in all our bad debt, we told them, and in return we'll label as terrorists these freedom-fighters who want to escape your insane corporate fascismand you can even come to Cuba and "interrogate" them.
Freedom! 2009
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