interrogation
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/ɪnˌterəˈɡeɪʃn/
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/ɪnˌterəˈɡeɪʃn/
the act of asking someone many questions, often in a forceful way
The police used interrogation to get answers from the suspect.
the process of getting information from a computer or machine
The computer's interrogation of the data found important patterns.