interrogate, v. question, put to the question, query, ask, inquire, inquire of, make inquiry; pose a question, demand an answer; examine, investigate, probe, interpellate; catechize, quiz, test, inquisition, pick [s.o.'s] brains; Inf. grill, pump, third-degree, put [s.o.] through the third degree, put [s.o.] through the wringer, cross-examine, cross-question, Inf roast, Inf put the pressure on, Sl. go or work over, Sl. put the screws to.
interrogation, n. 1. examination, investigation, interpellation, inquisition; cross-examination, crossquestioning, third degree, grilling, pumping, Sl. the grill; catechizing, quizzing, testing.
2. question, query, inquiry, Archaic, demand; issue, topic, problem, poser, moot point, controversial point, bone of contention; question before the house; burning question.
interrogative, adj. questioning, inquiring, interrogatory; inquisitorial, investigative, catechistic; inquisitive, quizzical, curious.
interrupt, v. 1. suspend, intermit, discontinue, lay aside; stop, put a stop to, halt, cease, end, terminate, bring to a stand or standstill, abort, cancel, drop, Inf. scrub; break off, sever, dissever, dissolve, sunder, disjoin; desist, refrain, leave off, Inf. lay off.
2. interfere, intrude, obtrude, interpose; talk out of turn, cut short, cut in, break in, barge in, Inf. butt in, Inf horn in, Inf. muscle in, Inf. chisel in; Inf. chip in, Inf. chime in, Inf. put in one's two cents' worth.
interruption, n. 1. suspension, discontinuance, intermission, abeyance; cessation, stop, stoppage, stopping, stay, halt; cancellation, abruption, severance, sunderance, disconnection, division, disunion, dissolution.
2. intrusion, obtrusion, interference, interloping, imposition, injection, insinuation, interjection.
3. interval, interim, interlude, interregnum; pause, recess, rest, respite, lull, Inf. letup; truce, cease-fire, armistice; Sports, half time or half-time intermission; gap, break, breach, fissure, hiatus, lacuna.
intersect, v. 1. bisect, halve, divide, divide in half, cut in two, dichotomize, Obs. dimidiate; split, cleave, sunder, cut down the middle.
2. intercross, cross, crisscross, crosscut, cut across, decussate; meet, join, unite, connect, converge, come together.
intersection, n. 1. junction, interchange, crossroads; traffic circle, rotary, Brit, roundabout; clover-leaf.
2. juncture, nexus, connexus, point of union or contact, connection; focus, focal point, focalization; coalescence, confluence, convergence; network, web.
interspace, n. 1. interstice, space, gap, lacuna, slot, mesh; crevice, crevasse, cranny, groove, sulcus, stria, Archaic, scissure; split, cleft, fissure, crack, chap, check, rift, breach, scission, separation, rupture, fracture; slit, gash, scotch, rent, cut; hole, cavity, opening, aperture.
2. interim, meantime, meanwhile, interval, interlude, interregnum, intervening period or time; intermission, entr'acte, break, hiatus, interruption, parenthesis; pause, breath, breather, breathing spell, lull, respite, rest, recess, interphase, Biol, interkinesis.
intersperse, v. 1. sprinkle, pepper, dot, permeate; scatter among, strew among, bestrew, distribute or disburse among, spread among, disperse through, broadcast throughout.