To confront with objections or hard questions; to examine, interrogate, question.
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| 释义 | the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > interrogation > question, interrogate [verb (transitive)] > question intensively (11) apposec1315 To confront with objections or hard questions; to examine, interrogate, question. opposec1380 transitive. To confront (a person) with hard questions or objections; to interrogate, question; to ask. Occasionally: to accuse. Cf. appose, v.1 1… demand1526 in passive. grate?1538 figurative. To examine rigorously. Obsolete. pump1611 transitive. To subject (a person) to a questioning process in order to elicit information; to ply with questions in an artful or persistent manner. sweat1764 slang. To subject (a prisoner, etc.) to close interrogation †or torture; to give the ‘third degree’ to (someone). Cf. sweat-box n. at sweat, n.… probe1804 transitive. To examine or look into closely; to investigate (a crime or other matter) thoroughly; to interrogate (a person). Also figurative. draw1854 transitive. Originally colloquial. To elicit information from (a person); to induce (a person) to speak about a matter. Now frequently in passive… grill1894 To subject to severe questioning. third-degree1928 (transitive) to subject to an intensive or violent interrogation. to put through the wringer1942 Figurative phrase to put through the wringer and variants: to try or test (a person or, rarely, a thing); esp. to subject to severe questioning. slang… |
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