interrogate
verb (used with object)
to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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I already know enough of the matter on which I am interrogating you, to be able to detect falsehood in your answers.’
From Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 by Lewis Gaylord Clark