INTERPELLATE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they interpellate ... he / she / it interpellates

Past simple: interpellated

Past participle: interpellated

-ing form: interpellating

Meaning:

Question formally about policy or government business

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "interpellate" is one way to...):

query; question (pose a question)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

interpellation ((parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy)