(law) The interrogation or questioning of a witness by the party against whom they have been called and examined. / (by extension) Any intense period of questioning, especially if hostile.

The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger. / Increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation.

The act of exalting or raising high; also, the state of being exalted; elevation. / The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.

The act of heaping or piling up.

Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare. / Better than the average; superior due to exception or rarity.

An exception, or something having an exceptional value

(uncountable) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass. / (countable) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.

(transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception. / (intransitive) To take exception, to object (to or against).

with the exception of; but.

With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.