All 10 Uses of
interrogate
in
In Cold Blood
- Young Rupp, the last person known to have seen the family alive, had already undergone one extensive interrogation, and although he'd told a straightforward story of having passed "just an ordinary evening" with the Clutters, he was scheduled for a second interview, at which time he was to be given a polygraph test.†
Chpt 2interrogation = the process of asking a series of questions of someone
- The Detective Division of the Las Vegas City Jail contains two interrogation rooms-fluorescent-lighted chambers measuring ten by twelve, with walls and ceilings of Celotex.†
Chpt 3
- Shortly before the appointed moment, the quartet of K.B.I. agents-Harold Nye, Roy Church, Alvin Dewey, and Clarence Duntz-gathered in a corridor outside the interrogation rooms.†
Chpt 3
- I'd never laid eyes on Hickock until he was brought down to the interrogation room.†
Chpt 3 *
- After Hickock's dismissal, Nye and Church crossed the corridor, and looking through the one-way observation window set in the door of the interrogation room, watched the questioning of Perry Smith-a scene visible though not audible.†
Chpt 3
- Across the hall, in the smoke-choked room where Hickock was undergoing his second interrogation, Church and Nye were methodically applying a more roundabout strategy.†
Chpt 3
- She heard the words "...after sobbing out his dramatic confession, Hickock emerged from the interrogation room and fainted in a hallway.†
Chpt 3
- In cross-examining the K.B.I. personnel, the defense attorneys, a beleaguered pair, argued that the admissions of guilt had been obtained by improper means-brutal interrogation in sweltering, brightly lighted, closet-like rooms.†
Chpt 4
- Awakened by an urgent call from the county coroner, Dameron presented himself at the jail around 3:00 a.m., whereupon detectives, who had been strenuously but abortively interrogating the suspect, withdrew to another room, leaving the minister to consult privately with his parishioner.†
Chpt 4interrogating = asking a series of questions of someone
- He remembered his first meeting with Perry in the interrogation room at Police Headquarters in Las Vegas-the dwarfish boy-man seated in the metal chair, his small booted feet not quite brushing the floor.†
Chpt 4interrogation = the process of asking a series of questions of someone
Definitions:
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(1)
(interrogate) ask a series of questions of someone -- typically asked by law enforcement officials or by someone in an aggressive manner
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, interrogate can mean to submit a query (question) to a computer system.