Reverse Dictionary: INTERROGATE

ADJECTIVES
► PYSMATIC interrogatory, questioning, inquiring → 1652 obs.
► QUESITIVE interrogative → 1891

INTERJECTIONS
► DEED! an exclamation of interrogation → 1806 Sc.  

NOUNS
► BAKE an interrogation → 1990s sl.
► CATECHISM a course of interrogation put to candidates, etc. → 1596
► GAFF police interrogation or examination → 1929 UK sl.
► OPPOSAL interrogation, examination; the putting of posing questions → 1426 obs.
► OPPOSING interrogation, confronting with hostile or hard questions → c1440 obs.
► TARRAGATION an interrogation, a strict cross-examination → 1864 Sc.

NOUNS – PERSON
► HECKLEE a person who undergoes hostile interrogation or heckling → 1895
► MUTT AND JEFF a pair of (police) interrogators who work as ‘nice’ and ‘nasty’, in order to elicit information → 1964 US criminals’ sl.
► QUERIST an interrogator, a questioner; one who asks or inquires → 1633

VERBS
► ACE 1. to resist interrogation or cross-examination tenaciously and successfully → 1929 US criminals’ sl.
2. to subject to severe interrogation; to enforce harsh treatment → 1940s sl., orig. US
► APPOSE to interrogate; to examine; to confront with objections or hard questions → c1315 obs.
► BONE to interrogate a suspect → 1966 UK criminal and police usage
► CATECHIZE to interrogate or question systematically or at length; esp. to question or examine with a view to reproof or condemnation → 1604
► FADE to withstand interrogation → 1960s US criminals’ sl.
► GUZZLE to interrogate, to arrest → 1936 UK & Amer. criminals’ sl.
► OPPOSE to interrogate, to question, to confront with objections or hard questions → c1386 obs.
► PUMP to interrogate someone → 1656 UK sl.
► QUIZ to interrogate, to cross-question; to ask inquisitive question; to make prying inquiries → 1848 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RAG to interrogate, to question closely → 2000s sl.
► RUN THROUGH THE WRINGER to subject to severe interrogation; to enforce harsh treatment → 1940s sl., orig. US
► TARRAGAT to interrogate, to question strictly and persistently; to tease, to torment with questions; to pester → 1825 Sc.