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  • Every other captive was grilled, at least at first, but no effort was made to interrogate him.  (source)
    interrogate = question
  • If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behavior, and given a melancholy prediction on what we would amount to when we grew up, which was always nothing.  (source)
    interrogation = aggressive questioning
  • He was, like, interrogating me.  (source)
    interrogating = aggressively asking a series of questions of someone -- like a law enforcement official
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  • Darren is in no shape for an interrogation.  (source)
    interrogation = the process of asking a series of questions of someone
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • I'll take the testimony of the policeman who interrogated him right after the murder, when he couldn't remember a thing about the movies, great emotional stress or not.  (source)
    interrogated = asked a series of questions of (someone)
  • On our rare trips to a nice restaurant, they would interrogate me about what I truly wanted until I'd confess that yes, I did want the steak.†  (source)
    interrogate = ask a series of questions of someone
  • INTERROGATOR: Explain your motive for murder.†  (source)
    INTERROGATOR = someone who asks a series of questions of someone else
  • And we also need to make sure the real Crabbe and Goyle can't burst in on us while we're interrogating him.†  (source)
    interrogating = asking a series of questions of someone
  • The first interrogators are French; an hour later they become German.†  (source)
  • Mrs. Colbey consistently maintained during multiple interrogations that the baby was stillborn.†  (source)
  • He is like a man surrounded by traps: society is not a recreation for him, but a serious toil: he weighs your least actions, interrogates your looks, and scrutinizes all you say, lest there should be some hidden allusion to affront him.†  (source)
    interrogates = asks a series of questions of someone
  • When there is mention of the Word of God, or of Man, it doth not signifie a part of Speech, such as Grammarians call a Nown, or a Verb, or any simple voice, without a contexture with other words to make it significative; but a perfect Speech or Discourse, whereby the speaker Affirmeth, Denieth, Commandeth, Promiseth, Threateneth, Wisheth, or Interrogateth.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-th" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She interrogateth" in older English, today we say "She interrogates."
  • I reckon you'll need about three days for a preliminary interrogation.  (source)
    interrogation = the process of asking a series of questions of someone
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