ask questions of (someone) closely, aggressively, or formally
police interrogated more than 15 people
he was interrogated at a detention centre
critically examine, analyse, or explore (a subject, concept, etc.)
we cannot begin to understand the inequality of freedom until we interrogate the issues of race, class, and gender
they were told to interrogate why education policies have failed to deliver excellence
obtain data from (a computer file, database, storage device, or terminal)
an interactive system enables users to interrogate the database