Other forms: interrogators
An interrogator is somebody who questions a suspect at length. A skilled interrogator, face the interrogator, the interrogator's notes.
The evidence is clear that rapport works and coercion does not: threatened people say whatever will make it stop, so false confessions are commonest where the interrogator is harshest. Britain rebuilt its whole interview method around that finding.
1nouninterrogatorSomebody who questions a suspect at length.
“The interrogator kept asking the same questions for hours, hoping the suspect would crack.”
interrogator is a questioner.
Latin interrogator comes from interrogare, to question — inter, between, plus rogare, to ask.
Latin
interrogātor
English, today
interrogator
From Latin interrogātor. by surface analysis, interrogate + -or.
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