cross-examination
noun
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(law) close questioning of a hostile witness in a court of law to discredit or throw a new light on the testimony already provided in direct examination
Types & categories
- interrogatory hypernym
Parts & wholes
- cross-question part meronym
- leading question part meronym
Related & opposite
- cross examine derivation
- law domain topic
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | cross examine |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | law |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | cross-question |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | leading question |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | interrogatory |