interrogate

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MURUNGARU: The counterterrorism center is a clearinghouse for information and intelligence that would be helpful to both the intelligence establishment as well as the counterterrorism police unit to be able to identify and interrogate, apprehend and prosecute those who would be involved in terrorism.

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  1. transitive verb To examine by questioning formally or officially. See Synonyms at ask.
  2. transitive verb Computer Science To transmit a signal for setting off an appropriate response.

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  • You must not interrogate, but if you would know, ask your cousin.” —  The Memories of Fifty Years
  • To kill this man insured the Phyrexians would come again, another day, but leaving him alive to interrogate - —  Time Streams
  • Was the robotic surgeon programmed to heal me, or was it drugging me so they could "interrogate" me? —  Who Do You Say I Am
  • It will not be my job, I am glad to say, but those who interrogate will be most thorough and most patient. —  Banquets of the Black Widowers
  • MURUNGARU: The counterterrorism center is a clearinghouse for information and intelligence that would be helpful to both the intelligence establishment as well as the counterterrorism police unit to be able to identify and interrogate, apprehend and prosecute those who would be involved in terrorism. —  CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2004
 

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  1. Middle English enterrogate, from Latin interrogāre, interrogāt- : inter-, in the presence of; see inter- + rogāre, to ask; see reg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin interrogatus, past participle of interrogare (later Italian interrogare = Spanish Portuguese interrogar = Provencal interrogar, enterrogar = French interroger), ask, question, from inter, between, + rogare, ask: see rogation.
  2. from interrogate, v.
 

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