interrogate

English

Etymology

From Latin interrogatus, past participle of interrogare (“to ask, question”), from inter (“between”) + rogare (“to ask”); see rogation.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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.

Related terms

• interrogable
• interrogatee
• interrogation
• interrogative
• interrogatively
• interrogator
• interrogatory

 

Translations

to question or quiz

• Armenian: հարցաքննել (hy) (harcʿakʿnnel)
• Catalan: interrogar (ca)
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 審問 (zh), 审问 (zh) (shěnwèn), 審訊 (zh), 审讯 (zh) (shěnxùn)

• Czech: vyslýchat
• Dutch: verhoren (nl), ondervragen (nl), interrogeren (nl)
• Esperanto: pridemandi (eo)
• Finnish: kuulustella (fi)
• French: interroger (fr)
• Georgian: გამოკითხავს (gamoḳitxavs)
• German: verhören (de)
• Greek: ανακρίνω (el) (anakríno)
• Hungarian: faggat (hu), vallat (hu), kikérdez (hu), kifaggat (hu)
• Irish: ceistigh
• Japanese: 訊く (ja) (きく, kiku), 尋問する (ja) (じんもんする, jinmon-suru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can

• Latin: sciscitor, percontor
• Maori: uiui
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: avhøra
• Persian: بازجویی کردن‎ (bâz-juyi kardan)
• Polish: przesłuchiwać (pl), przesłuchać (pl)
• Portuguese: interrogar, questionar (pt)
• Russian: допра́шивать (ru) impf (doprášivatʹ), допроси́ть (ru) pf (doprosítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: ispítati (sh), prèslušati (sh)

• Spanish: interrogar (es)
• Swedish: förhöra (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: sorguya çekmek (tr), sorgulamak (tr), soru sormak (tr), isticvap etmek, istinkak etmek
• Ukrainian: допи́тувати impf (dopýtuvaty), допита́ти pf (dopytáty)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

References

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

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Italian

Verb

interrogate

1. second-person plural present indicative of interrogare
2. second-person plural imperative of interrogare
3. feminine plural of interrogato

Anagrams

• integratore, reintegrato

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Latin

Verb

interrogāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of interrogō