interrogate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they interrogate | |
| he / she / it interrogates | |
| past simple interrogated | |
| past participle interrogated | |
| -ing form interrogating |
- interrogate somebody
to ask somebody a lot of questions over a long period of time, especially in an aggressive way 訊問；審問；盤問 He was interrogated by the police for over 12 hours. 他被警察審問了 12 個多小時。 Soon after we arrived, I was interrogated about my parents and our home life. 我們到達後不久，就有人向我盤問起我的父母和我們的家庭生活。
- interrogate something (specialist)
to obtain information from a computer or other machine （在計算機或其他機器上）查詢，詢問
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Latin interrogat- ‘questioned’, from the verb interrogare, from inter- ‘between’ + rogare ‘ask’.