interrogator

[in-ter-uh-gey-ter]

noun

1. a person who interrogates.

2. Also called challenger. Radio.,  a transmitter that emits a signal to trigger a transponder.

Word History and Origins

Origin of interrogator¹

1745–55; < Late Latin interrogātor; interrogate, -tor

Example Sentences

Yet in scenes she described as "horrific but humanising", prisoners rushed to help injured guards, calming a panicked female officer and bandaging the wounds of a crying interrogator.

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Skarsgård's spymaster drives a knife into his torso to prevent Imperial interrogators from agonizingly extracting compromising information, but survives and is hospitalized under guard.

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The interrogators then punched him, he said, and he fell to the rubble-strewn floor, injuring his eye.

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Dressed in a sari, with eyes downcast, she sits down on a wooden stool facing her interrogators.

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He can be seen confirming his identity while breathing heavily and glancing to his side at an interrogator, who is out of shot.

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