The Only Use of
interrogate
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- I can only imagine that the headmaster was trembling with excitement; this interrogation took place in the Police Department offices of Gravesend's own chief of police—our old "murder weapon" and "instrument of death" man, Chief Ben Pike!†
p. 404.7interrogation = 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.