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cross-questioned

cross-questioned is the simple past and past participle of cross-question.

Meaning of cross-question

Verb

cross-question (third-person singular simple present cross-questions, present participle cross-questioning, simple past and past participle cross-questioned)

  1. (transitive) 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...

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Questions about cross-questioned

What is cross-questioned the simple past and past participle of?
Cross-questioned is the simple past and past participle of cross-question.

Words near cross-questioned in the dictionary

  1. cross-purposes
  2. cross-quantilogram
  3. cross-quantilograms
  4. cross-quarters
  5. cross-question
  6. cross-questioned
  7. cross-questioning
  8. cross-questionings
  9. cross-questions
  10. cross-race effect
  11. cross-ratio

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