Synonyms of interrogates

interrogates

verb

present tense third-person singular of interrogate

1

as in asks

to put a question or questions to

interrogated him about where he'd gone the night before

Synonyms & Similar Words

• asks
• questions
• quizzes
• inquires (of)
• examines
• queries
• grills
• bombards
• catechizes
• besieges
• cross-examines
• pumps
• surveys
• cross-questions
• polls

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• responds
• answers
• replies
• observes
• avoids
• remarks
• rejoins
• retorts
• comments
• ducks

2

as in examines

to put a series of questions to

police interrogated the murder suspect for hours on end

Synonyms & Similar Words

• examines
• questions
• pumps
• quizzes
• catechizes
• queries
• grills
• harasses
• debriefs
• picks the brains of
• cross-examines
• pesters
• gives the third degree to
• sweats
• annoys
• cross-questions
• hounds
• canvasses
• polls

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of interrogates

One day scholars will teach Lepore’s work alongside Arendt’s, seeing that Lepore interrogates not simply a modern moment, but traces our current machine age back to the 17th-century conceit for artifice as improvement. — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026

Writer-director Ari Aster interrogates not just the social and political turmoil of COVID-19, but also the way social media can exacerbate that unraveling of collective neuroses. — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 15 July 2026

Barragán originally set out to find the man who scammed his mother by posing as a handsome American soldier, but now interrogates four of these young men, illuminating their psychological tactics, economic hardships and moral dilemmas. — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 May 2026

Advent has effectively digitized its own intellectual history — its wins, its misses, its assumptions — and turned it into a live analytical layer that interrogates every new deal that comes before the committee. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 25 May 2026

Employing a cast of non-professional locals, the film playfully interrogates the brutal but bungled occupation while also allowing its actors — many of whom are descendants of the fascists’ victims — to reinterpret and reclaim a chapter in their city’s past. — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 May 2026

Also of note, when Vader interrogates Leia on the Death Star, this would be a perfect time to use the force. — Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 4 May 2026

But beyond its account of a family in flight, from both the authorities and its own murkier truths, Dangerous, Dirty, Violent and Young interrogates the radicalism of the 1960s and 70s, its unlikely alliances, its political legacies, and its many, many casualties along the way. — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Apr. 2026

June interrogates him about Frankenstein and mentions the creature being forced to do another’s bidding. — Alice Burton, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026