Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cross-examine \Cross"-ex*am"ine\ (-?m"?n), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Cross-examined (-?nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cross-examining.]
(Law)
To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and
examined by the opposite party. ``The opportunity to
cross-examine the witnesses.''
--Kent.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context transitive English) To question (someone) closely in order to verify facts, or information previously given. 2 (context intransitive English) To question a trial witness, who has already been questioned by the other side. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To question (someone) closely in order to verify facts, or information previously given. 2 (context intransitive English) To question a trial witness, who has already been questioned by the other side.
Usage examples of "cross-examine".
However, if we proceed to a formal investigation, you or your attorney will have the opportunity to cross-examine any sworn testimony Dr Brandt might give.
The court ruled that if a confessing defendant is tried jointly with defendants he has implicated and does not testify, the nonconfessing defendants are denied their constitutional rights to confront and cross-examine their accuser.
Back in Court I was cross-examining that notable grass, Peanuts Molloy, a skinnier, more furtive edition of Jim Timson.
As for the burial mound incident, I could cross-examine him for a month, and I could not get across to the board what you just told me and what I believe.
He shouldn’t have to drag answers out of Johnny like a cop cross-examining a hostile suspect.
How do you think they'll feel having some stranger cross-examining them on the holiday?
Tomorrow she would be cross-examining the defendant in a murder case she was prosecuting.
There had been people who had questioned their plans closely, almost cross-examining them .
When you cross-examined the complainant in that indecent assault in the old Kilburn Alhambra.
Down at the Old Bailey, that backward and primitive place, no villain can be sent down to chokey as a result of a leading question, or a bit of gossip in the saloon bar, or what a child said to a social worker and wasn't even cross-examined.
I interrogate and examine and cross-examine him, and if I think that he has no virtue, but only says that he has, I reproach him with undervaluing the greater, and overvaluing the less.
There was a moment of shuffling relaxation in the court-room, and then the Prosecuting Officer rose to cross-examine me.
If you have concluded your redirect examination I want to cross-examine him.