quiz
verb/kwɪz/
/kwɪz/
[often passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they quiz | /kwɪz/ /kwɪz/ |
| he / she / it quizzes | /ˈkwɪzɪz/ /ˈkwɪzɪz/ |
| past simple quizzed | /kwɪzd/ /kwɪzd/ |
| past participle quizzed | /kwɪzd/ /kwɪzd/ |
| -ing form quizzing | /ˈkwɪzɪŋ/ /ˈkwɪzɪŋ/ |
- to ask somebody a lot of questions about something in order to get information from them synonym question
- quiz somebody (about somebody/something) Four men are being quizzed by police about the murder.
- Police have been granted an extra 24 hours to quiz the men.
- quiz somebody on/over something We were quizzed on our views about education.
Extra Examples- More than half the people quizzed in a poll said they would not use the new service.
- They were quizzed over the betting shop killings.
- quiz somebody (on something) (North American English) to give students an informal test
- You will be quizzed on chapter 6 tomorrow.
Word Originmid 19th cent. (as a verb; originally US): possibly from quiz ‘look curiously or intently at someone as if through an eyeglass’, influenced by inquisitive.
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