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PROLONGED INTERROGATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prolonged interrogation mean?
• PROLONGED INTERROGATION (noun)
The noun PROLONGED INTERROGATION has 1 sense:
1. a form of psychological torture inflicted by questioning the victim for hours
Familiarity information: PROLONGED INTERROGATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PROLONGED INTERROGATION (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A form of psychological torture inflicted by questioning the victim for hours
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("prolonged interrogation" is a kind of...):
torture; torturing (the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason)
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