cross-question
cross-question noun: a question posed during a cross-examination.
Noun
cross-question (plural cross-questions)
- A question posed during a cross-examination.
Verb
cross-question (third-person singular simple present cross-questions, present participle cross-questioning, simple past and past participle cross-questioned)
- To subject to close questioning.
- The good man, he looks on us so clear and cheery, and in his neighbourly soft-smiling eyes we see so well our own shadow, - we have a longing always to cross-question him.1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. 1, Jocelin of Brakelond”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient...
- the best way to get things clear is if we gently cross-question this very statement.2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 237b
Forms of cross-question
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cross-questions |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cross-questions |
| present participle | cross-questioning |
| past participle | cross-questioned |
| past | cross-questioned |
Origin of cross-question
From cross- + question.
Questions about cross-question
- What does cross-question mean?
- Cross-question means a question posed during a cross-examination.
- What part of speech is cross-question?
- Cross-question can be a noun or a verb.
- What is the plural of cross-question?
- The plural of cross-question is cross-questions.
Words near cross-question in the dictionary
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