All 20 Uses
interrogate
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The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
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- I reckon you'll need about three days for a preliminary interrogation.
Chpt 8 *interrogation = the process of asking a series of questions of someone
- The interrogation had begun.†
Chpt 8
- Leamas even seemed to respond to the dispassionate professionalism of his interrogator—it was something they had in common.†
Chpt 8interrogator = someone who asks a series of questions of someone else
- "A couple of weeks," he'd said; "I expect they'll take you off somewhere for the interrogation—it may even be abroad.†
Chpt 10interrogation = the process of asking a series of questions of someone
- You mean you haven't finished the interrogation.†
Chpt 10
- When you have completed the interrogation, what will you do with me?†
Chpt 10
- He does all the big interrogations.†
Chpt 12
- Your initial interrogation took place in the West, where only an embassy could provide the kind of link we needed.†
Chpt 12interrogation = the process of asking a series of questions of someone
- There are, as you know, two stages in the interrogation of a defector.†
Chpt 13
- After a moment Fiedler said, "He's never taken on an interrogation before.†
Chpt 14
- He used to say to me, 'You interrogate them, Jens, no one can do it like you.†
Chpt 14interrogate = ask a series of questions of someone
- In this he differed from professional interrogators who set store by initiative, by the evocation of atmosphere and the exploitation of that psychological dependency of a prisoner upon his inquisitor.†
Chpt 17
- I wanted to see Fiedler's report of his own interrogation of you, you see.†
Chpt 17interrogation = the process of asking a series of questions of someone
- Oh, I too was softened for interrogation.†
Chpt 18
- "The Tribunal has read the reports of your interrogation," Fiedler continued.†
Chpt 20
- I suppose they would either have interrogated him and then tried to exchange him for one of our own people in prison over here; or else they'd have given him a ticket.†
Chpt 20interrogated = asked a series of questions of someone
- We must suppose that he was met in West Berlin, that on his short journeys abroad to Scandinavia and elsewhere he was contacted and interrogated.†
Chpt 20
- You must remember Mundt's exceptional position: he had access to all the security files, could tap telephones, open letters, employ watchers; he could interrogate anyone with undisputed right, and had before him the detailed picture of their private life.†
Chpt 20interrogate = ask a series of questions of someone
- And when the reports of Leamas' first interrogation in The Hague reached the Praesidium, do you suppose Comrade Mundt threw his away unread?†
Chpt 21interrogation = the process of asking a series of questions of someone
- And when, after Leamas had arrived in our country and Fiedler embarked on his own interrogation, no further reports were forthcoming, do you suppose Comrade Mundt was then so obtuse that he did not know what Fiedler was hatching?†
Chpt 21
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) Much more rarely, interrogate can mean to submit a query (question) to a computer system.