Meaning & use
Quizzed
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Asked someone a series of questions, especially to test their knowledge or to gather information.
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The detective quizzed the witnesses about what they had seen.
The teacher quizzed the class on last week's vocabulary.
A note on using this word
Past tense of "quiz," a word whose own origin is uncertain, though it has been used since the late 18th century for both testing knowledge and questioning someone informally.
Words with a similar meaning
questionedinterrogatedgrilled
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answered
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