0 to ask someone a lot of questions for a long time in order to get information, sometimes using threats or violence: --
Thousands of dissidents have been interrogated or imprisoned in recent weeks.
1 to get information from a computer: --
2 to ask questions about something as a way of analysing it or finding out more about it: --
This all sounds perfectly sensible until we start to interrogate the underlying assumptions.
The book interrogates the way numbers are handled and mishandled by politicians and the media.
3 to ask someone many questions in a formal situation, often in a forceful way that can be seen as threatening: --
Only a narrow fragment of people’s lives is interrogated in a courtroom.
I admire his willingness to interrogate his own assumptions.
We interrogate how archaeology is shaped as a study of the past, contrasted against heritage, which is taken to be the study of the present.
Online banking means the ability to interrogate your bank account by computer.
There are now more than 1,400 fund managers in our UK database, which is interrogated to find the award winners.
Twenty years ago people built fairly rudimentary systems to interrogate a database.
She is endlessly curious about the world and other people, interrogating them about the details of their lives.
I was walking down the street doing nothing when the cops stopped and interrogated me.