interrogate
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There are new developments surrounding allegations the CIA has been using some secret prisons in Europe to house, interrogate, and possibly torture terror suspects illegally.
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- transitive verb To examine by questioning formally or officially. See Synonyms at ask.
- transitive verb Computer Science To transmit a signal for setting off an appropriate response.
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Was the robotic surgeon programmed to heal me, or was it drugging me so they could "interrogate" me?
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There are new developments surrounding allegations the CIA has been using some secret prisons in Europe to house, interrogate, and possibly torture terror suspects illegally.
— CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2006 -
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 - With her attention no longer on her meal, Solaris proceeded to" "interrogate" him was too strong a word for what she did, since she was polite, interested, and deceptively offhand in her questions and remarks, but "interrogation" was what it amounted to. — Sun In Glory
- "So?" — The Pull of the Moon
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- 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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/ (ĭn-tĕrˈə-gātˌ)/
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