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

The second part, though, is that AI provides opportunities for CEOs to have a virtual board of directors, a new person on the team, and a way of interrogating their own thinking which may reduce the loneliness of being a CEO. — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026

Brittin has spent his early months in the job interrogating whether the broadcaster’s output is properly meeting audience needs and is said to be clear-eyed about shifting resources away from services that are dwindling in influence. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026

The previous investigations were stalled because Haitian judges kept resigning from the case, fearing for their lives, and gangs seized control of the downtown Port-au-Prince courthouse where the judges were interrogating suspects. — Evens Sanon, Arkansas Online, 21 Sep. 2026

For Frankfurt, as for Murdoch, the work of being human involves interrogating the motives and assumptions that guide our actions, asking whether our desires are truly desirable. — Meghan O’Gieblyn, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026

Jacobsen, after interrogating scientific and security experts around the world, has imagined an accident at a Siberian lab that launches a runaway outbreak. — The Week Us, TheWeek, 19 Aug. 2026

Fort Worth house The episode opens with Kyle (Thad Luckinbill) interrogating Oleksandra (Elizaveta Neretin) about the attack at Joe’s house. — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Aug. 2026

Animals Soul Blind Larissa Diakiw On interrogating fear and what bats can teach about human connection. — Naomi Skwarna, hazlitt.net, 13 Aug. 2026

Recognizing those forces in the world isn’t the same thing as interrogating them, and as a seasoned artist with real power in Hollywood, Gluck repeatedly mistakes implication for insight. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Aug. 2026