1. Travel across or pass over
   "The caravan crossed almost 100 miles each day";
   - traverse, track, cover, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
    
2. Meet or overlap with each other at a point
   "The roads cross under the bridge";
   - intersect
    
3. Meet and pass
   "the trains crossed"
    
4. To cover or extend over an area or time period
   "Rivers cross the valley floor";
   - traverse, span, sweep
    
5. Trace a line through or across
   "cross your ‘t’"; "dot your i's and cross your t's!"
    
6. Fold so as to resemble a cross
   "she crossed her legs"
    
7. Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
   "cross your opponent";
   - thwart, queer [informal], spoil, scotch, foil, frustrate, baffle, bilk [informal], scupper [informal]
    
8. Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
   "cross a horse and a donkey";
   - crossbreed, hybridize, hybridise [Brit], interbreed

1. Annoyed and irritable
   "The cross old man yelled at the kids to get off his lawn";
   - crabbed, crabby, fussy, grouchy [informal], grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, arsey [Brit, informal]
    
2. Feeling or showing anger
   "cross at the weather";
   - angry
    
3. Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis
   "cross members should be all steel";
   - transverse, transversal, thwartwise [archaic], thwartways [archaic]

1. A wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
   "The church had a large wooden cross on its altar"
    
2. A marking that consists of lines that cross each other
   "She drew a cross pattern on the graph paper"; "He made a cross on the map to mark the treasure location";
   - crisscross, mark
    
3. Any affliction that causes great suffering
   "that is his cross to bear";
   - crown of thorns
    
4. (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species
   "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey";
   - hybrid, crossbreed
    
5. (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
   "cross techniques have led to the development of many new crop varieties";
   - hybridization, hybridisation [Brit], crossbreeding, crossing, interbreeding, hybridizing, hybridising [Brit]
    
6. (soccer) a kick in which the ball passes from one side of the pitch towards the centre
   "The striker scored from a perfect cross"

1. A representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry

Sounds like: croons, kroonss, cross

Derived forms: crossest, crossing, crossed, crosses, crosser

See also: aggravated, angered, apoplectic [informal], black, choleric, crosswise, enraged, fuming, furious, hopping mad [informal], hot under the collar [informal], huffy, ill-natured, incensed, indignant, infuriated, irascible, irate, ireful [archaic], livid, mad, outraged, provoked, ropable [Austral, NZ], ropeable [Austral, NZ], seething, smoldering [N. Amer], smouldering [Brit, Cdn], sore, spare [Brit, informal], steaming [informal], umbrageous, wrathful, wroth [archaic], wrothful [archaic]

Type of: affliction, being, breed, bump into, come across, conjugation, construction, continue, coupling, cover, emblem, encounter, extend, fold, fold up, forbid, foreclose, forestall, marking, mating, meet, organism, pairing, pass, preclude, prevent, run across, run into, see, sexual union, structure, turn up, union, write

Antonym: uncross

Encyclopedia: Cross, Matthew