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Learned borrowing from Latin interrogātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin interrogō (“to inquire, interrogate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛɹ.ə.ɡeɪt/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛɹ.əˌɡeɪt/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈteɹ.ə.ɡæɪt/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ənˈteɹ.ə.ɡæɪt/

interrogate (third-person singular simple present interrogates, present participle interrogating, simple past and past participle interrogated)

1. (transitive) To question or quiz, especially in a thorough or aggressive manner.

   The police interrogated the suspect at some length before they let him go.

2. (transitive, computing) To query (something); to request information from (something).

   to interrogate a database

3. (transitive, literary) To examine (something) critically.
   • 2015, Rita Kiki Edozie, Curtis Stokes, Malcolm X's Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies, Michigan State University Press:

     Griffin's approach allows her to reveal Billie Holiday's resilient strength of character and to interrogate the racism she endured, which was as tragic as her personal mistakes.

   • 2019 February 1, J. C. Garden, “Interrogating innocence: “Childhood” as exclusionary social practice”, in Childhood‎^[1], volume 26, number 1, page 54:

     Within the contemporary US context, the construct of childhood innocence is a powerful social myth that structures children’s social relations and culture and informs their rights and status in society. In this article, I interrogate the construct of childhood innocence to examine how it operates as an exclusionary form of social practice.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “interrogate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “interrogate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

interrogate

1. inflection of interrogare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

interrogate f pl

1. feminine plural of interrogato

• integratore, reintegrato

interrogāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of interrogō

interrogate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of interrogar combined with te