interrogate

Learned borrowing from Latin interrogātus.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛrəɡeɪt/

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interrogate (third-person singular simple present interrogates, present participle interrogating, simple past and past participle interrogated)

1. (transitive) to question or quiz, especially in a thorough and/or aggressive manner

   The police interrogated the suspect at some length before they let him go.

2. (transitive, computing) to query; to request information from.

   to interrogate a database

3. (transitive, literary) to examine critically.
   • 2015. Rita Kiki Edozie, Curtis Stokes. Malcolm X's Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies. Michigan State University Press:

     Griffin's approach allows her to reveal Billie Holiday's resilient strength of character and to interrogate the racism she endured, which was as tragic as her personal mistakes.

• interrogate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• interrogate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

interrogate

1. inflection of interrogare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

interrogate f pl

1. feminine plural of interrogato

• integratore, reintegrato

interrogāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of interrogō