Inspect vs Interrogate - What's the difference?
inspect | interrogate |
To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.
To view and examine officially.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 To question or quiz, especially in a thorough and/or aggressive manner.
As verbs the difference between inspect and interrogate
is that inspect is to examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize while interrogate is to question or quiz, especially in a thorough and/or aggressive manner.inspect
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Alternative forms
* enspectVerb
(en verb)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
Derived terms
* inspector * inspectionAnagrams
* *interrogate
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Verb
(interrogat)- The police interrogated the suspect at some length before they let him go.