quizzed

Verb

quiz (third-person singular simple present quizzes, present participle quizzing, simple past and past participle quizzed)

1. (archaic, transitive) To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
   • he quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room—1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis
2. (archaic, transitive) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
3. (transitive) To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.
   • He quizzed the suspect for around half an hour.
4. (transitive) To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.
5. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To play with a quiz.

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