Synset

(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
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cross-examination

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

cross examine

semantic pointers

hypernym

examination, interrogation, interrogatory

domain of synset (topic)

law, jurisprudence

part meronym

cross-question leading question