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Interrogate

verb

(past & past part. interrogating)

Transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication.

Pose a series of questions to. Synonym: question. "We questioned the survivor about the details of the explosion"

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"Interrogate" Quotes from Famous Books

... hands you now are, might perhaps not interrogate you with so much delicacy. Who was this unknown at whose feet we saw you fall? What do you know of him? How did you get acquainted with him? And in what way was he connected with the appearance ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... "literally," half a mile of boulevards. Go you, as did the wives, the sisters, the daughters, the wailing mothers, take a torch, plunge into the dark night, feel on the ground, feel along the pavement and the walls, pick up the corpses, interrogate the phantoms, and reckon ...

— Napoleon the Little • Victor Hugo

... the doctrine of pre-existence in his answer to the disciples, when they interrogate him thus about the man born blind,[226] 'Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' It is clear that this question would have been ridiculous and impertinent if the disciples had not believed that the man born blind had ...

— Reincarnation - A Study in Human Evolution • Th. Pascal

... refreshment in the daily outpourings she confided to the white pages of her private book. Therein she was free to make her moan, to abandon herself to her griefs, to seek to decipher the enigma of her own heart, to interrogate her conscience; here she gained courage in prayer, tranquillised herself by meditation, laid her troubled spirit once more in the hands of the Heavenly Father. And from every page shone the same pure light—the light ...

— The Child of Pleasure • Gabriele D'Annunzio

... anything to a left-hand neighbor which would not be appropriate for a right-hand neighbor to hear. When in general talk, the habit some supposedly well-bred persons have of glancing furtively at any one guest to interrogate telepathically another's opinion of some remark is bad taste beyond the power of censure or the possibility ...

— Conversation - What to Say and How to Say it • Mary Greer Conklin

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