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Interrogating

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.

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interrogating

vb. (present participle of interrogate English)

Usage examples of "interrogating".

While the clerics stay busy seeking me, the decoy, my illustrious chief will undertake another, more discreet inquiry undisturbed, by performing divinations and interrogating demons, prob­ably.

His feeling of helplessness was only intensified by the speed with which a dossier on Michael Wireman had appeared in the interrogating officer's hands, radiophotoed from Central Headquarters in Geneva, half a world away.

Michael Wireman said, and for some reason the interrogating officer abandoned his line of questioning in favor of another.

If there was one thing he disliked, he supposed it was interrogating old people.

Carella had gone out to look up the address given him by Mary Goodery, Parker was still on his candy store plant, Hernandez was out interrogating a buglary victim, and Meyer and Kling were in the lieutenant’s office.

The word was he was the best at interrogating witnesses and suspects alike, because when he needed to be, he was cool and low-key and could calm the most hysterical witness, but he was also a real hard-ass with the bad guys.

A contingent of well-armed drow had come to the Isle of Rothe, demanding answers, interrogating both the orc and goblin slaves and the few drow slavers on the island.

When the police is interrogating to you about our relation while we were here, if somehow something escapes to you that reveals that we had intimate relations, I want that you promise a thing to me.

Kuhn certainly had, damn him - if she gave him her body, he kept his fellow SS goons from interrogating her.

He spoke fluent French and adequate English, so he was put to work interrogating captured prisoners.