verb [VN]
1 to ask sb a lot of questions over a long period of time, especially in an aggressive way:
He was interrogated by the police for over 12 hours.
2 (technical) to obtain information from a computer or other machine
interrogation noun [U,C]:
He confessed after four days under interrogation. * She hated her parents' endless interrogations about where she'd been.
interrogator noun:
His interrogators finally forced him to confess.
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