interrogate
They allege that police interrogators ignored or refused their requests for a lawyer.
Interrogators have questioned the eight people detained last weekend.
He was tortured by interrogators who accused him of being a member of the rebel group.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Questioning people & asking questions in general
ask after someone
ask questions of someone/somethingidiom
be someone's for the askingidiom
beat something out of someone
bombard
consultative
Gallup poll
inquisition
pin someone down
ply someone with something
poll
pry
put someone through the millidiom
put someone through the wringeridiom
put someone to somethingidiom
rhetorical question
roll
shoot
survey
trick question

Examples of interrogator

interrogator
If the only argument against medically trained interrogators is merely a contingent avowal of some oath, then this is not a particularly powerful objection.
Feedback from an interrogator is likely to be even more important when questions are intended to elicit recall.
For example, we could just identify prospective medically trained interrogators earlier and make sure they never uttered the words.
The replies are enlightening as to the nature of the threat posed by foreign merchants, and suggest considerable rigour on the part of the interrogators.
Of course, it is an empirical question how these interrogators actually view their relationship with the interrogatees.
First, we could easily imagine medically trained interrogators who never took such an oath and therefore, ex hypothesi, would not be breaking one.
But this is irrelevant for present purposes as we are assuming that the interrogator does not have this attitude.
Second, traditional medical duties or responsibilities do not apply to medically trained interrogators.
The book addresses the language used in confession events by suspects and by their interrogators.
I suspect, in many cases, the interrogator of this encyclopedia would need to have some prior knowledge to expedite a successful search.
However, it has so far been assumed that traditional medical duties or responsibilities apply to medically trained interrogators, and this assumption is contestable.
So now we must ask whether the interrogator should assume the role of physician and therefore the associative moral duties.
Whether the medically trained interrogator has special duties or responsibilities to the interrogatee depends on two central questions.
Physicians who turn over medical records to potential interrogators would arguably violate all five of the aforementioned moral ideals; thus such an act would be morally problematic.
People who claim that medically trained interrogators are violating medical duties often say something like: the medically trained interrogator has medical knowledge, therefore she or he has certain moral duties.
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