question

1. (transitive) To ask questions of; to interrogate; to ask for information.Examples: "Yet he lingered in Perryville with the determination of seeing Ruth, and questioning her about Helen Murray's letters."; "However, a Carlisle newspaper got hold of the story, and at the half-yearly meeting of the Caledonian Railway Company, held on March 17, 1863, a shareholder, Mr. Meiklem, questioned the Chairman, Lt.-Col. Salkeld, regarding a "Chase of Engines," described in the newspaper article. The Chairman admitted that the statements made in the article were perfectly true."; "Another former resident noticed the car because it was new and upscale and no one ever came back to question him. This points to serious flaws in the investigation from the beginning."transitive

2. (transitive) To raise doubts about; have doubts about.Examples: "Question things. I have the most fun when I'm writing questioning things that people do not question- the assumptions that everybody knows are true."; "He questioned South Korean claims that China is a major source of its pollution."; "Isaacson reports that Musk’s fractured relationship with Jenna, who is trans, partly led to Musk’s rightward turn toward libertarianism and questioning what he considers the “woke-mind-virus, which is fundamentally antiscience, antimerit, and antihuman.”"transitive

3. (intransitive) To ask a question or questions; inquire or seek to know; examine.Examples: "He that questioneth much shall learn much."intransitive

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To argue; to converse; to dispute.Examples: "I pray you, think you question with the Jew."intransitiveobsolete