interrogate

1. (transitive) to question or quiz, especially in a thorough and/or aggressive mannerExamples: "The police interrogated the suspect at some length before they let him go."transitive

2. (transitive, computing) to query; to request information from.Examples: "to interrogate a database"transitive

3. (transitive, literary) to examine critically.Examples: "Griffin's approach allows her to reveal Billie Holiday's resilient strength of character and to interrogate the racism she endured, which was as tragic as her personal mistakes."; "Within the contemporary US context, the construct of childhood innocence is a powerful social myth that structures children’s social relations and culture and informs their rights and status in society. In this article, I interrogate the construct of childhood innocence to examine how it operates as an exclusionary form of social practice."literarytransitive