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# interrogation

«interrogation» in Mova's school dictionary: **long, close questioning of someone, especially by police…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an interrogation, interrogations; also uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An interrogation is long, close questioning of someone, especially by police or soldiers, to get information. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interrogation/#m1)

2) (informal, humorous) An interrogation can be any long string of questions, like from a parent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interrogation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and crime shows: the detective's interrogation of a suspect. In everyday humour: "I got a full interrogation when I came home late." In grammar: an interrogative sentence asks a question. Phrases: under interrogation, interrogation room.

### examples

- The police kept the suspect in the interrogation room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interrogation/#x1)
- Under interrogation, the thief told the truth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interrogation/#x2)
- Mum's interrogation about my muddy shoes lasted ten minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interrogation/#x3)
- The spy refused to talk during the interrogation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interrogation/#x4)
- The detective began the interrogation calmly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interrogation/#x5)
- I faced an interrogation from my little sister about Father Christmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interrogation/#x6)

### note

Verb: interrogate; person: interrogator. Spelling: double r (inte-rr-ogation). Related grammar word: interrogative (a question sentence ending with "?").

### In the corpora

- ["Enhanced interrogation" means torture (US).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/20/)
- ["Extraordinary rendition" means secretly moving a prisoner to another country for interrogation, long hard questioning (US).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/25-spin-war-and-violence/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «interrogation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/interrogation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.