Term: cross-examination: (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
Candidate hypernym: request: the verbal act of requesting → 1
Candidate hypernym: designatum: something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression → 0
Candidate hypernym: intellectualization: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that uses reasoning to block out emotional stress and conflict → 0
Candidate hypernym: provost guard: a detachment under the command of a provost marshall → 0
Candidate hypernym: cat's-ear: European weed widely naturalized in North America having yellow flower heads and leaves resembling a cat's ears → 0
Candidate hypernym: voltage regulator: a transformer whose voltage ratio of transformation can be adjusted → 0
Candidate hypernym: missouri: a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri → 0
Candidate hypernym: lutheran church: the Protestant denomination adhering to the views of Martin Luther → 0
Candidate hypernym: mylodon: large (bear-sized) extinct edentate mammal of the Pleistocene in South America → 0
Candidate hypernym: carpet tack: used to nail down carpets → 0
Candidate hypernym: wasp waist: a very slender waist → 0