interrogated

verb

past tense of interrogate
1
as in asked
to put a question or questions to interrogated him about where he'd gone the night before

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2
as in examined
to put a series of questions to police interrogated the murder suspect for hours on end

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Recent Examples of interrogated The alleged attacker was detained and interrogated by Saudi authorities. — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026 The Omani suspect is being held and interrogated by Saudi authorities. — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2026 The case was reopened in July, after state security officials interrogated Benítez for 11 hours. — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026 By resisting the siloing of art by geography and chronology, the rehang interrogated the style and substance of European modernism, as well as the ways later generations of artists reclaimed those histories. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026 His attorney’s office says he was interrogated without pain medication, while the Department of Homeland Security has released few details about what prompted the shooting. — Anna Wilder, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026 Since Babette was being interrogated by police during this moment, the ominous visitor isn’t her. — Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2026 In the prisoner’s dilemma, a pair of thieves have been captured and are being separately interrogated by the police. — Chris Lee, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026 The parallels between what happened and is still happening in Gaza right now and what happened during World War II clearly are not lost on some of the Israeli men and women interrogated here, even if the scale and details are certainly different. — Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interrogated
  1. asked
  2. examined
  3. questioned
  4. quizzed
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  • In both examples, no one is being proposed to, asked on a date, or really being asked any kind of question that would require them to respond in an immediate, public way.
    — Vanessa Bohns, Time, 6 Oct. 2026
  • View gallery - 5 images Agilink, a spin-off of Chinese robotics giant AgiBot, asked Fu Xianghong, a master of traditional Suzhou embroidery, to train its OmniHand 3 Ultra.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2026
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  • In the fourth quarter, left tackle Rashawn Slater lay for several moments on the turf and was examined by medical staff before rising to his feet and walking gingerly to the sideline with an ankle injury.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Under D’Amaro, Disney has enacted new rounds of layoffs and examined its cost structure.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of examined
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  • The deal is a way to repair relationships between the agency and west Charlotte residents who have questioned NCDOT’s communication and transparency on the multi-billion dollar toll lane project.
    — Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Prosecutors questioned the schizophrenia diagnosis and pointed out that suffering from mental illness is not the same as meeting the legal standard of insanity.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of questioned
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  • Executives from French media and entertainment group Mediawan Group, whose production banner portfolio includes Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, were among the people on stage getting quizzed about the impact of mega-mergers.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Barbera and his team then decided to go ahead and hold the presser after online observers blasted Venice’s hesitation to cancel it as a move to shield jury members from being quizzed about politics.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 1 Sep. 2026
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“Interrogated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interrogated. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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