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interrogate
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
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I underwent a brief interrogation about how I'd gotten to the house and who had taken me there, and because the easiest kind of lying is when you leave things out of a story rather than make them up, I passed with flying colors.†
p. 87.6 *

interrogation = the process of asking a series of questions of someone
"Well, Mr. Portman," she said briskly, "I think you've been adequately interrogated.†
p. 152.5

interrogated = asked a series of questions of someone
They've interrogated everyone under the age of twenty.†
p. 201.7
He was able to interact with a great many children in a remarkably short time—touching them, interrogating them—screening for signs of peculiarity.†
p. 261.8

interrogating = asking a series of questions of someone
If they spotted someone approaching, they yanked a pull-chain that rang a bell in Miss Peregrine's room, which meant that whenever I arrived she'd be waiting inside the door to interrogate me.†
p. 272.4

interrogate = ask a series of questions of someone

Definitions:

(1) (interrogate)
ask a series of questions of someone -- typically asked by law enforcement officials or by someone in an aggressive manner
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, interrogate can mean to submit a query (question) to a computer system.