0 past participle, past simple 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 --
However, when the medical expert was questioned and cross-examined thereafter, a totally different state of affairs was disclosed.
I should not like to be cross-examined about any of them.
The admiral was called as a witness for the defence and was cross-examined.
There are special provisions for witnesses to be cross-examined, and that indicates that something unusual is being done.
How did it appear to us, who examined and cross-examined the witnesses on the question?
Courts will also be able to direct that witnesses should be cross-examined on video before the trial.
The first witness for the prosecution appears, in fact, to have been fully cross-examined as to character.
Commissioners and their civil servants can very easily be brought in to be questioned and cross-examined.
