0 present participle of cross-examine --
1 to ask detailed questions of someone, especially a witness in a trial, in order to discover if they have been telling the truth --
Without my cross-examining him about his salary, he volunteered the information that he gets the equivalent of £10,000 a year.
It is no obligation of mine to answer cross-examining questions by a legal luminary.
He is told that he has the opportunity of examining or cross-examining witnesses.
I suggest that the idea of cross-examining all of them weeks or months before the trial is wholly impracticable.
This matter is particularly important as regards cases where women are related to, or have had a relationship with, the man who is cross-examining them.
The interviewer immediately began cross-examining him about adultery.
Are they to be given a chance of cross-examining on this new decision?
Obviously we cannot at this stage go on cross-examining each other.
