- 1interrogate 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. Wordfinderpolicearrest, charge, cordon, detain, detective, interrogate, plain clothes, police, raid, undercover See related entries: Legal processes, Solving crime
- 2interrogate 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’.
interrogate
verbBrE BrE//ɪnˈterəɡeɪt//; NAmE NAmE//ɪnˈterəɡeɪt//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they interrogate BrE BrE//ɪnˈterəɡeɪt//; NAmE NAmE//ɪnˈterəɡeɪt//
he / she / it interrogates BrE BrE//ɪnˈterəɡeɪts//; NAmE NAmE//ɪnˈterəɡeɪts//
past simple interrogated BrE BrE//ɪnˈterəɡeɪtɪd//; NAmE NAmE//ɪnˈterəɡeɪtɪd//
past participle interrogated BrE BrE//ɪnˈterəɡeɪtɪd//; NAmE NAmE//ɪnˈterəɡeɪtɪd//
-ing form interrogating BrE BrE//ɪnˈterəɡeɪtɪŋ//; NAmE NAmE//ɪnˈterəɡeɪtɪŋ//
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