1. Placed crosswise
   "seated with arms crossed"; "spoken with a straight face but crossed fingers"; "crossed forks"
    
2. (of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it
   "He submitted a crossed check to ensure it could only be deposited, not cashed"

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

See also: crosstown, cross-town, decussate, intersectant, intersecting

Type of: breed, bump into, come across, continue, cover, encounter, extend, fold, fold up, forbid, foreclose, forestall, meet, pass, preclude, prevent, run across, run into, see, turn up, write

Antonym: uncross, uncrossed

Encyclopedia: Crossed