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                              noun  VERB + CROSS-EXAMINATION be subject to, face Evidence is given on oath and witnesses are subject to cross-examination. | bear, stand up to, withstand His alibi would not have withstood cross-examination. PREP.  during/in ~ He was found to have lied twice in cross-examination. | under ~ The defendant broke down under cross-examination.
                        
                        
 
                        
                            Oxford Collocations Dictionary