interrogate

🇺🇸 /ɪnˈterəɡeɪt/ 🇬🇧 /ɪnˈterəɡeɪt/
Frequency
Difficulty
Tags TOP10000
verb
R

to ask someone many questions, often in a forceful way

The police will interrogate the suspect to find out what happened.

R

to get information from a computer or machine

The program can interrogate the database to find the needed data.

translation

v. to ask someone many questions, often in a forceful way; to get information from a computer or machine

Word Forms

3rd Present interrogates
Past interrogated
Perfect interrogated
Progressive interrogating