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Arraign vs Interrogate - What's the difference?

arraign | interrogate |

As verbs the difference between arraign and interrogate

is that arraign is to officially charge someone in a court of law while interrogate is to question or quiz, especially in a thorough and/or aggressive manner.

As a noun arraign

is arraignment.

arraign

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To officially charge someone in a court of law.
  • To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
  • * Dryden
    • They will not arraign you for want of knowledge.
  • * I. Taylor
    • It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • arraignment
    • the clerk of the arraigns
    (Blackstone)
    (Macaulay)

    References

    interrogate

    English

    Verb

    (interrogat)
  • To question or quiz, especially in a thorough and/or aggressive manner.
    • The police interrogated the suspect at some length before they let him go.

    Related terms

    * interrogatee * interrogation * interrogative * interrogatively * interrogator * interrogatory * interrogable

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