cross
/kɹɔs/ verb A2- To place across or athwart; to cause to intersect. · She frowned and crossed her arms.
- To lay or draw something across, such as a line. · to cross the letter t
- To mark with an X. · Cross the box which applies to you.
- To write lines of text at right angles to and over the top of one another in order to save paper.( Crossed letter on WikipediaWikipedia )
- To make the sign of the cross over oneself.
- To make the sign of the cross over (something or someone).
- To go from one side of (something) to the other. · Why did the chicken cross the road?· You need to cross the street at the lights.
- To travel in a direction or path that will intersect with that of another. · Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way.
Plural cross · He/she/it crosses · Past crossed · Past participle crossed · -ing form crossing
Verb forms
- Base form
- cross
- He/she/it
- crosses
- Past
- crossed
- Past participle
- crossed
- -ing form
- crossing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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As he was crossing through the water he lost his footing, stumbled and fell, and not being able to rise on account of his load, groaned heavily.
An old man, decorated with the cross of Saint Louis, now rose and proposed the health of King Louis XVIII.
Elizabeth thought this was going pretty far; and she listened with increasing astonishment as the housekeeper added, “I have never had a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him ever since he was four years old.”
We bring to his widow his sword and cross of honor.
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