interrogated

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past simple and past participle of

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.

to get information from a computer:

The computer language was originally developed to make it faster to interrogate a database.

to ask questions about something as a way of analysing it or finding out more about it:

The book interrogates the way numbers are handled and mishandled by politicians and the media.

This all sounds perfectly sensible until we start to interrogate the underlying assumptions.