INTERROGATE

[verb] [T] - to ask (someone) a lot of questions in a formal situation such as a police station or a law court, sometimes using extreme mental or physical pressure to obtain informationThe airport police who interrogated the girl concluded that she was innocent and hadn't known about the drugs.Investigating officers would visit the claimant's home and interrogate neighbours to check that he or she was not concealing anything.Thousands of dissidents have been interrogated or imprisoned in recent weeks.If you interrogate a computer, you obtain information from it.The system uses an ordinary telephone for electronic mail, home banking and interrogating computer databases. [T]