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Questioning   /kwˈɛstʃənɪŋ/   Listen
Questioning

noun
1.
A request for information.  Synonym: inquiring.
adjective
1.
Perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know).  Synonym: quizzical.
2.
Marked by or given to doubt.  Synonyms: doubting, sceptical, skeptical.  "A skeptical listener"
3.
Showing curiosity.  Synonyms: inquisitive, speculative, wondering.  "Raised a speculative eyebrow"



Question

verb
(past & past part. questioned; pres. part. questioning)
1.
Challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of.  Synonyms: call into question, oppugn.
2.
Pose a series of questions to.  Synonym: interrogate.  "We questioned the survivor about the details of the explosion"
3.
Pose a question.  Synonym: query.
4.
Conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting.  Synonym: interview.
5.
Place in doubt or express doubtful speculation.  Synonym: wonder.  "She wondered whether it would snow tonight"



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"Questioning" Quotes from Famous Books



... questioning further, though he could hardly keep from laughing, but Ree shook his head, unwilling to make fun of one who was so ...
— Far Past the Frontier • James A. Braden

... he stood in profound silence. His very soul seemed deprived of power to answer so terrible a denunciation, with even a questioning thought. He had heard the destruction of Scotland declared, and himself sentenced to perish if he did not escape the general ruin by flying from her side! This terrible decree of fate, so disastrously corroborated by the extremity of Bruce, and the divisions ...
— The Scottish Chiefs • Miss Jane Porter

... had confessed and been punished; a hundred men had admitted the facts. He did not know then that the charge against him was conspiracy to murder. He determined to make a false confession, to escape torture. He was worn out with the ceaseless questioning, and ...
— Korea's Fight for Freedom • F.A. McKenzie

... establishment in the town, that it occurred to him to institute inquiry. He had accordingly repaired thither, but finding the house carefully shut up, and totally uninhabited, had contented himself with questioning the tanner and his family, in regard to its late inmates, reserving to a future opportunity the attempt to make himself personally acquainted with all that it contained. From this man he learnt, that, the house had once been the property of an aged Canadian, at whose death (supposed ...
— The Canadian Brothers - or The Prophecy Fulfilled • John Richardson

... had we run down there when we heard the cries it would have gone hard with us. The troops certainly spent no time in questioning; the women might have told them, perhaps, that we had come to their assistance; still it is just as well that we keep clear of ...
— Beric the Briton - A Story of the Roman Invasion • G. A. Henty


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