Antonyms of verb cross

1 of 8 senses of cross

Sense 4
cross -- (fold so as to resemble a cross; "she crossed her legs")
       Antonym of uncross (Sense 1)
      => uncross -- (change from a crossed to an uncrossed position; "She uncrossed her legs")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb cross

8 senses of cross

Sense 1
traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across -- (travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day")
       => pass, go through, go across -- (go across or through; "We passed the point where the police car had parked"; "A terrible thought went through his mind")

Sense 2
intersect, cross -- (meet at a point)
       => meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see -- (come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!")

Sense 3
thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk -- (hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent")
       => prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid -- (keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project")
          Phrasal Verb-> double cross#1

Sense 4
cross -- (fold so as to resemble a cross; "she crossed her legs")
       => fold, fold up, turn up -- (bend or lay so that one part covers the other; "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar")

Sense 5
cross, traverse, span, sweep -- (to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries")
       => cover, continue, extend -- (span an interval of distance, space or time; "The war extended over five years"; "The period covered the turn of the century"; "My land extends over the hills on the horizon"; "This farm covers some 200 acres"; "The Archipelago continues for another 500 miles")

Sense 6
cross -- (meet and pass; "the trains crossed")
       => intersect, cross -- (meet at a point)

Sense 7
cross -- (trace a line through or across; "cross your `t'")
       => write -- (mark or trace on a surface; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet")

Sense 8
crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed -- (breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed")
       => breed -- (cause to procreate (animals); "She breeds dogs")

Antonyms of adj crossed

2 senses of crossed

Sense 1
crossed (vs. uncrossed) -- (placed crosswise; "spoken with a straight face but crossed fingers"; "crossed forks"; "seated with arms across")

uncrossed (vs. crossed) -- (not crossed; "sitting primly with uncrossed legs")

Sense 2
crossed (vs. uncrossed) -- ((of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it)

uncrossed (vs. crossed) -- ((of a check) not crossed)

Similarity of adj crossed

2 senses of crossed

Sense 1
crossed (vs. uncrossed) -- (placed crosswise; "spoken with a straight face but crossed fingers"; "crossed forks"; "seated with arms across")
       => crosstown, cross-town -- (going or extending across a town or city; "the crosstown bus"; "crosstown traffic")
       => decussate, intersectant, intersecting -- (crossed or intersected in the form of an X)

Sense 2
crossed (vs. uncrossed) -- ((of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it)

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