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across

/əˈkɹɔs/ adverb A2
  1. From one side to the other. · she helped the blind man across; the river is half a mile across
  2. On the other side. · If we sail off at noon, when will we be across?
  3. In a particular direction. · He leaned across for a book.
  4. Horizontally. · I got stuck on 4 across.
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Like ladies' skirts across the grass--
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 7 · C1
All night across the dark we steer:
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 10 · C1
Home I return across the sea,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 18 · C1
I send across the seas,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 25 · C1

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