interrogating
Demanding answers from
Interrogating is the present participle of interrogate, meaning to question someone thoroughly and often aggressively, typically to extract information.
Police interrogate suspects, lawyers interrogate witnesses, and parents interrogate teenagers who came home late.
The word carries connotations of pressure and formality that distinguish it from casual questioning.
They spent hours interrogating the witness about what she saw.
In technical contexts, interrogating can refer to querying a system or device for data.
Request for information
- queryRequest for information
- askSeek an answer
- inquireAsk for information
- interviewFormal questioning session
cross-examine · debrief · grill · quiz · probe · examine · solicit · challenge
Cooking on metal grates
- relentlessContinuing without pause
- aggressiveHostile and confrontational
- pressuringExerting influence to compel
- demandingRequiring great effort
harsh · coercive · forceful · persistent · intimidating · confrontational · unrelenting · rigorous
Believe to be likely
- witnessOne who attests
- detaineePerson held in custody
- prisonerConfined criminal detainee
- informantOne who provides intelligence
testimony · confession · alibi · evidence · custody · arrest · detective · crime
Inspect with close attention
- analyzeStudy by breaking down
- examineStudy with attention
- dissectCut open to examine
- probeThorough examination or tool
challenge · critique · evaluate · assess · deconstruct · unpack · test · verify
Study with attention
- reflectReturn light or thought
- probeThorough examination or tool
- inquireAsk for information
- challengeTest of ability
critique · dialectic · Socratic · questioning assumptions · epistemological · self-examination · doubt · skeptical inquiry
question
Request for information
interview · cross-examine · debrief · grill · quiz · probe · examine · solicit · challenge · press
grilling
Cooking on metal grates
- relentlessContinuing without pause
- aggressiveHostile and confrontational
- pressuringExerting influence to compel
demanding · harsh · coercive · forceful · persistent · intimidating · confrontational · unrelenting · rigorous · stern
suspect
Believe to be likely
informant · testimony · confession · alibi · evidence · custody · arrest · detective · crime · case
scrutinize
Inspect with close attention
probe · challenge · critique · evaluate · assess · deconstruct · unpack · test · verify · review
examine
Study with attention
challenge · critique · dialectic · Socratic · questioning assumptions · epistemological · self-examination · doubt · skeptical inquiry · deconstruct
- researchstudy, research papers, researching, archive, peer review
- gossiprumor, rumors, gossip, hearsay, whisper
- reproachesblaming, scolding, rebuking, reprimanding, censuring
- overparentinghelicopter parenting, helicopter parent, overprotective, overprotection, overprotecting
- intrusionsintrusion, intrude, intruder, intruding, barging in
interrogatinganswering
Providing a response
replying · responding · confessing · testifying · disclosing
interrogatingchatting
Informal verbal exchange
conversing · small talk · bantering · shooting the breeze · casual conversation
- interrogation roomsSpaces for formal questioning
- police interrogationOfficial suspect questioning
- enhanced interrogationEuphemism for abusive questioning
- interrogation techniquesProcedures for eliciting information
- interrogation methodsTechniques for extracting information
- suspect interrogationFormal police interview of accused
interrogation, interrogative, interrogatively, interrogations, interrogatives