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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crossed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crossed cheque
crossed the finish line
▪ James crossed the finish line in just under four minutes.
It...crossed...mind that
It never crossed my mind that Lisa might be lying.
keeping...fingers crossed
▪ We’re keeping our fingers crossed that she’s going to be OK.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
get your wires crossed
▪ We got our wires crossed and I waited for an hour in the wrong place.
▪ Somewhere along the line, some one had got their wires crossed, that much was clear.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A crossed cheque therefore gives some protection against fraud if it falls into the wrong hands.
▪ He is a man of determination and enthusiasm, whose integrity and will power have crossed party lines.
▪ It may be a delirious hope, but you force yourself to rest your arms on your chest, crossed and pulsing.
▪ Spying out the unevenly crossed legs, he steered his tiny shoe towards Murphy's table.
▪ That came from more than a few crossed twigs and dry leaves.
▪ The problem is to discover how these familiar zones are bounded and how they are crossed.
▪ This starts out as sensible cost-saving and value.engineering but imperceptibly the boundary is crossed arid we enter the realm of skimping.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crossed

Cross \Cross\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crossed (kr[o^]st; 115); p. pr. & vb. n. Crossing.]

  1. To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.

  2. To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.

  3. To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.

    A hunted hare . . . crosses and confounds her former track. -- I. Watts.

  4. To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time. ``Your kind letter crossed mine.''
    --J. D. Forbes.

  5. To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.

    In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing.
    --Shak.

    An oyster may be crossed in love. -- Sheridan.

  6. To interfere and cut off; to debar. [Obs.]

    To cross me from the golden time I look for.
    --Shak.

  7. To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.

  8. To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross out a name.

  9. To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.

    To cross a check (Eng. Banking), to draw two parallel transverse lines across the face of a check, with or without adding between them the words ``and company'', with or without the words ``not negotiable'', or to draw the transverse lines simply, with or without the words ``not negotiable'' (the check in any of these cases being crossed generally). Also, to write or print across the face of a check the name of a banker, with or without the words ``not negotiable'' (the check being then crossed specially). A check crossed generally is payable only when presented through a bank; one crossed specially, only when presented through the bank mentioned. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

    To cross one's path, to oppose one's plans.
    --Macaulay.

Wiktionary
crossed

vb. (en-past of: cross)

WordNet
crossed
  1. adj. placed crosswise; "spoken with a straight face but crossed fingers"; "crossed forks"; "seated with arms across" [syn: across] [ant: uncrossed]

  2. (of a check) for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it [ant: uncrossed]

  3. produced by crossbreeding [syn: hybrid, interbred, intercrossed]

Wikipedia
Crossed (film)

Crossed is independent film maker Stolis Hadjicharalambous's feature length action/thriller film. It is a story of truth, power, and revenge in a dangerous crime underworld of assassins.

Crossed (comics)

Crossed is a comic book written by Garth Ennis and drawn by Jacen Burrows for the first ten issues, and published by Avatar Press. Following volumes Crossed: Family Values, Crossed 3D, and Crossed: Psychopath were written by David Lapham. A new series, Crossed: Badlands is written and drawn by rotating creative teams. The franchise has also spawned two webcomics: Crossed: Wish You Were Here, which ran from 2012–2014, and Crossed: Dead or Alive, which began syndication in November 2014.

Crossed

Crossed may refer to:

  • Crossed (comics), a 2008 comic book series by Garth Ennis
  • Crossed (film), a 2008 independent film
  • Crossed (novel), a 2010 young adult novel by Ally Condie
  • "Crossed" (The Walking Dead), an episode of the television series The Walking Dead
Crossed (novel)

Crossed is a young adult novel written by Allyson Braithwaite Condie. It is the sequel to Matched and the second book in the Matched trilogy.

Crossed (The Walking Dead)

"Crossed" is the seventh episode of the fifth season of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead, which aired on AMC on November 23, 2014. It was written by Seth Hoffman and directed by Billy Gierhart. In the episode, Michonne and Carl Grimes stay at the barricaded Church with Gabriel Stokes as Rick Grimes and the others go on a rescue mission for Beth Greene and Carol Peletier in Atlanta. The episode received generally positive reviews, though most noted the set up for the mid-season finale. This is the first episode to feature all credited series regulars for the fifth season.

The episode title refers to Rosita Espinosa explaining how she met Abraham Ford and Eugene Porter, crossing paths in Dallas. It also refers to Sasha being double-crossed by Sgt. Bob Lamson. Crossed is also the title of a series of comics set in a post-apocalyptic world of sadistic infected.

Usage examples of "crossed".

Quick concern crossed his face and he framed my head with gentle hands.

God, the child had had sense enough to dislodge the log after he'd crossed it.

He crossed to the window to gaze wistfully out at the vividly green Common, down to the river with its backdrop of the great mountain range.

He could only wait, hunched up under the thickly crossed branches, passive when his nerves strained for action.

The first dip he crossed he scuffed up badly, then he cut suddenly to his left executing a wild jump over a thicket.

Todd couldn't think how to explain that the thought had never seriously crossed the mind of the songwriter.

Once he crossed it, he wouldn't be allowed back over until his innocence was proved.

Immediately, she regretted her choice of phrases because a shadow crossed Todd's face: the friend he most wanted to see was forbidden him.

That cuts me to the quick,” Fred said, his huge hands crossed dramatically over his heart.

Frill, red to the ears, drew in another tangent, this one leading inwards towards Doonarrala, and crossed it out.

Arms crossed over her chest to keep her fingers from twitching, she paced over to the console, wondering if it was too soon after her last call.

It was the first time that welcome and totally unexpected expression had crossed her face for two weeks.

And crossed the magnificent inner hall without gawking at the famous sculpture depict ing Man overpowering the Laeconia of Science.

She sipped the Coke through a straw and a look of intense pleasure crossed her face.

He swore under his breath because none of the creatures crossed any of the clearings, almost as if they expected an aerial attack and were crowding under whatever cover they could find.