He kept silent all the time during the interrogation.
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Interrogation
//ɪnˌteɹ.əˈɡeɪ.ʃən//
Synonyms for "interrogation" (59 found)
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Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (29)
Noun(4 words)
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6 entriesderived
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3 entriesrelated to
16 entriesTranslations
101 translations across 49 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- اِسْتِجْوَاب noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- اِسْتِنْطَاق noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- تَحْقِيق مَعَ noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Armenian
1 entries- հարցաքննություն noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- dindirmə noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- sorğu-sual noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Belarusian
2 entries- апыта́нне noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- до́пыт noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Bulgarian
3 entries- въпроси́телна noun (point, mark, or sign)
- запи́тване noun (question put; an inquiry)
- ра́зпит noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Catalan
1 entries- interrogatori noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 疑問 /疑问 noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Czech
1 entries- výslech noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Danish
4 entries- afhøre noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- afhøring noun (question put; an inquiry)
- forhør noun (question put; an inquiry)
- forhøre noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Dutch
2 entries- ondervraging noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- verhoor noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Esperanto
1 entries- priaŭskulto noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Estonian
1 entries- ülekuulamine noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Finnish
1 entries- kuulustelu noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Georgian
1 entries- დაკითხვა noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
German
4 entries- Befragung noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- Fragezeichen noun (point, mark, or sign)
- Verhör noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- Vernehmung noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Hebrew
1 entries- חֲקִירָה noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Hindi
1 entries- पूछताछ noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Hungarian
4 entries- kihallgatás noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- kikérdezés noun (question put; an inquiry)
- tudakozódás noun (question put; an inquiry)
- vallatás noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Indonesian
4 entries- interogasi noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- kompes noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- penanyaan noun (question put; an inquiry)
- sudi siasat noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Irish
2 entries- ceistiú noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- ceistiúchán noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Italian
2 entries- interrogazione noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- interrogazione noun (question put; an inquiry)
Japanese
3 entries- 取り調べ noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- 尋問 noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- 聴取 noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Kazakh
1 entries- жауап алу noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Khmer
1 entries- ការសួរចំឡើយ noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Korean
2 entries- 개물음 noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- 심문 noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- допрос noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- сурак noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Latvian
1 entries- nopratināšana noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Lithuanian
1 entries- apklausa noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Macedonian
2 entries- испитување noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- сослушување noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Malay
1 entries- soal siasat noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Mongolian
1 entries- байцаалт noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- avhør noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- forhør noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Persian
3 entries- استنطاق noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- بازجویی noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- بازپرسی noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Polish
4 entries- badanie noun (question put; an inquiry)
- interrogacja noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- interrogacja noun (question put; an inquiry)
- przesłuchanie noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Portuguese
3 entries- interrogatório noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- interrogação noun (question put; an inquiry)
- interrogação noun (point, mark, or sign)
Romanian
1 entries- interogare noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Russian
2 entries- допро́с noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- опро́с noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ispitívānje noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- испити́ва̄ње noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Slovak
2 entries- vypočúvanie noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- výsluch noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Slovene
2 entries- izpraševanje noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- zaslišanje noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Spanish
3 entries- interrogación noun (question put; an inquiry)
- interrogatorio noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- signo de interrogación noun (point, mark, or sign)
Swedish
2 entries- förhör noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- utfrågning noun (question put; an inquiry)
Tajik
4 entries- бозпурсӣ noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- истинток noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- пурсиш noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- тергав noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Turkish
1 entries- sorgu noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Turkmen
1 entries- sorag noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Ukrainian
2 entries- до́пит noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- о́пит noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Uyghur
1 entries- سوراق قىلىش noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Uzbek
2 entries- soʻroq noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
- soʻroq qilish noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thẩm vấn noun (act of interrogating or questioning)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
Everybody knows the line “The boy didn't crack under interrogation”, but nowadays many people don’t know the continuation: it is a verse about a boy who died, having refused to renounce his Komsomol membership.
Source: tatoeba (1525481)
Tom spent all morning in the interrogation room.
Source: tatoeba (1932293)
Tom is in the interrogation room.
Source: tatoeba (2400200)
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