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Quizzed

Quiz \Quiz\ (kw[i^]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quizzed (kw[i^]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Quizzing (kw[i^]z"z[i^]ng).]

  1. To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.

    He quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room.
    --Thackeray.

  2. To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.

  3. To instruct in or by a quiz. See Quiz, n.,

  4. [U.S.]

    Quizzing glass, a small eyeglass.

Wiktionary
quizzed

vb. (en-past of: quiz)

WordNet
quiz
  1. n. an examination consisting of a few short questions

  2. [also: quizzing, quizzes, quizzed, quizzes (pl)]

quiz
  1. v. examine someone's knowledge of something; "The teacher tests us every week"; "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs" [syn: test]

  2. [also: quizzing, quizzes, quizzed, quizzes (pl)]

quizzed

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Usage examples of "quizzed".

Jax was quizzed on dock-ing procedures by the space station commander, Ladade, who sounded surly until finally Zainal intervened and said that he, Zainal, had been her instructor and that she was competent to pilot, even in such a busy port.

Their colleagues tried to find out why a nineteen-year-old boy attracted such distinguished guests and quizzed the floor nurses.

On the bridge, at least, he wasn't quizzed to the point of aggravation by pruriently curious crewmen and women.

When he woke, Dirzan gave him time for a cup of klah and a meatroll, then quizzed him on the drum measures assigned him the day before.

On second thought, Vincent was glad he had not quizzed the clerk about the man in 1417, and thereby made himself unduly conspicuous.

I used to investigate a bit, in the same way that you quizzed the chauffeur of the limousine which took you to the Metrolite.

Ned seemed somewhat bemused by his new regimen but otherwise did not embarrass Evalyn, who quizzed Blaise in great detail about Caroline.

He paid unblushing court to Miss Taverner, was kind to Miss Fairford, quizzed his aunt and cousin, took Peregrine secretly over to a dingy tavern in the nearest town to witness a cockfight, and was voted in less than no time to be a most amiable young man.

Having quizzed Miss Taverner for several minutes, he started to come towards her curricle, but encountered such a frosty look from her that he changed his mind, and began to curse one of the ostlers instead.

Harvey had quizzed his friends about Hood, and had the same story from them both: they'd heard no footfalls, no whispers, no laughter.

Harvey could have named a few of them if he'd been quizzed: tulips, daffodils, roses.

The cops quizzed me as to his whereabouts after the gold mart robbery.