interrogate
verb/ɪnˈterəɡeɪt/
/ɪnˈterəɡeɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they interrogate | /ɪnˈterəɡeɪt/ /ɪnˈterəɡeɪt/ |
| he / she / it interrogates | /ɪnˈterəɡeɪts/ /ɪnˈterəɡeɪts/ |
| past simple interrogated | /ɪnˈterəɡeɪtɪd/ /ɪnˈterəɡeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle interrogated | /ɪnˈterəɡeɪtɪd/ /ɪnˈterəɡeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form interrogating | /ɪnˈterəɡeɪtɪŋ/ /ɪnˈterəɡeɪtɪŋ/ |
- interrogate somebody to ask somebody a lot of questions over a long period of time, especially in an aggressive way
- He was interrogated by the police for over 12 hours.
- Soon after we arrived, I was interrogated about my parents and our home life.
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- interrogate something (specialist) to obtain information from a computer or other machine
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Latin interrogat- ‘questioned’, from the verb interrogare, from inter- ‘between’ + rogare ‘ask’.
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