Synonyms of interrogating

interrogating 1 of 2

noun

as in questioning

Related Words

• questioning
• interrogation
• survey
• investigation
• research
• probing
• inquisition
• questionnaire
• probe
• exploration
• examination
• poll
• study
• inquiry
• request
• question
• inquest
• interrogatory
• query
• call

Dissimilar Words

• response
• answer
• reply

interrogating

2 of 2

verb

present participle of interrogate

1

as in asking

to put a question or questions to

interrogated him about where he'd gone the night before

Synonyms & Similar Words

• asking
• questioning
• quizzing
• querying
• grilling
• inquiring (of)
• examining
• catechizing
• bombarding
• surveying
• cross-examining
• pumping
• besieging
• cross-questioning
• polling

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• responding
• answering
• replying
• observing
• avoiding
• commenting
• remarking
• retorting
• rejoining
• ducking

2

as in examining

to put a series of questions to

police interrogated the murder suspect for hours on end

Synonyms & Similar Words

• examining
• questioning
• quizzing
• querying
• pumping
• grilling
• catechizing
• harassing
• debriefing
• sweating
• cross-examining
• picking the brains of
• pestering
• giving the third degree to
• hounding
• cross-questioning
• annoying
• canvassing
• polling

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of interrogating

Verb

Consumers are becoming increasingly comfortable interrogating formulations rather than simply admiring them, and that changes the relationship between brand and buyer in ways the industry is only beginning to understand. — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026

But the filmmaker proves more interested in interrogating that ethos than recreating it, and few horror mythologies are better suited to exploring betrayal and regret than one built around the refusal to let the dead remain dead. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 July 2026

Investigators sat across from nearly every young child at Skyline – many of whose nascent, swinging legs could not yet reach the ground from their chairs – interrogating them over their missing classmate. — Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 23 June 2026

New York police executing a search warrant raided an LGBTQ+ bar called the Stonewall Inn, and some of the patrons resisted as officers continued interrogating them and bar employees. — USA Today, 17 June 2026

The same instinct to accumulate without interrogating shows up everywhere. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 June 2026

Afterward, he was forced into a truck, where agents continued interrogating him after finding contacts linked to Argentine judicial agencies on his cellphone. — ABC News, 22 May 2026

But those comparisons won’t do The White Lotus any favors, since Beef is more effective than that series’ second and third seasons in interrogating how exclusive locations sharpen class differences. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 4 May 2026

On its improbable third album since reuniting in 2014 after a 14-year hiatus, American Football isn’t interested in reclaiming youth so much as interrogating what came after it. — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 1 May 2026