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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
interrogate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
question/interrogate/interview a suspect
▪ Police confirmed that six suspects are being questioned.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
database
▪ The Library carries out literature searches on behalf of staff, by interrogating large bibliographic databases which are mounted on very large computers.
▪ This provides a very flexible and economical method of accessing and interrogating the database of some 70000 samples.
▪ An interactive system enables users to interrogate the database and to supply information, as well as drawing from it.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Army officers have been accused of using unorthodox methods when interrogating enemy prisoners.
▪ During the war, he interrogated more than 150 prisoners of war.
▪ I was interrogated at length about my conversation with the two men.
▪ The police interrogated Waters for 24 hours until he confessed.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interrogate

Interrogate \In*ter"ro*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interrogating.] [L. interrogatus, p. p. of interrogare to ask; inter between + rogare to ask. See Rogation.] To question formally; to question; to examine by asking questions; as, to interrogate a witness.

Wilt thou, uncalled, interrogate, Talker! the unreplying Fate?
--Emerson.

Syn: To question; ask. See Question.

Interrogate

Interrogate \In*ter"ro*gate\, v. i. To ask questions.
--Bacon.

Interrogate

Interrogate \In*ter"ro*gate\, n. An interrogation; a question. [Obs.]
--Bp. Hall.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
interrogate

late 15c., a back-formation from interrogation, or else from Latin interrogatus, past participle of interrogare "to ask, question" (see interrogation). Related: Interrogated; interrogating.

Wiktionary
interrogate

vb. (context transitive English) To question or quiz, especially in a thorough and/or aggressive manner.

WordNet
interrogate
  1. v. transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication

  2. pose a series of questions to; "The suspect was questioned by the police"; "We questioned the survivor about the details of the explosion" [syn: question]

Wikipedia
Interrogate (band)

Interrogate are a heavy metal band from Northern Ireland. Originally formed in the late 1990s, the band - from Castledawson, County Londonderry - have endured a near fatal accident, line-up changes and flammable practice rooms.

Their 2005 début EP Unbroken garnered the band a fan base, and cemented their place in the Irish metal scene They played support for GBH, Slit, Panic Cell and Raging Speedhorn. The band played at Glasgowbury Festival.

Scarred for Life aimed to build upon Interrogate’s reputation as Northern Ireland's premier metal band, and with tour plans afoot for Ireland, mainland UK and beyond.

Usage examples of "interrogate".

In any case he welcomed him willingly and kept him at Beauvais, supervising and interrogating him, ready to use him at an auspicious moment.

I Present thee with this music-flowing shell, Knowing thou canst interrogate it well.

Matt Gregoire and I will interrogate Schneider en route to Earth and transmit his deposition to you as soon as we can.

She broke quickly enough, telling Kaska everything he wanted to know before he even had a chance to begin interrogating her.

If you are CIA recruits I can countermand the orders, I can insist that we take you back to Latvia so our experts can interrogate you.

If so, then Penza Hall might be where the Vikings were being interrogated.

During this period, Turner was not permitted to see friends, relatives, or counsel, was never informed of his right to remain silent, and was interrogated daily, though for briefer intervals than in the preceding case.

With the sky beginning to pale in the window behind me, I fitted the Nemex and the Philips gun in their holsters, strapped on the Tebbit knife, and went out to do some interrogating of my own.

Except on the autoroutes, the legal speed limit in France is 110 kph : the man being interrogated must have been doing at least 150 when he had passed the transporter.

The Indigenes sitting by his bedside, who were eight or nine in number, interrogated him, wanting to know who he was, where he was going.

Misskelley was interrogated by the West Memphis police for somewhere around twelve hours, yet the transcript is nowhere near twelve hours long.

Nevertheless, all three could be interrogated repeatedly and for hours by armed police officers, with neither parent nor lawyer present, and all three could be charged as adults and face possible execution.

Austin had interrogated plenty of car thieves, fences and chop shop owners.

Some other agents who interrogated people in the work brigades got a lead on MC 4 by using his description, at about the time the brigades got on the trucks to go home.

Tell Praporovich that the agent, when captured, must be transferred at once to the Leningrad house, and interrogated thoroughly.