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cross

English

  1. 🔊 annoyed and irritable
  2. 🔊 a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified
  3. 🔊 a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
  4. 🔊 any affliction that causes great suffering
    “that is his cross to bear”
  5. 🔊 a marking that consists of lines that cross each other
  6. 🔊 (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock
    “a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey”
  7. 🔊 (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
  8. 🔊 trace a line through or across
    “cross your `t'”
  9. 🔊 meet and pass
    “the trains crossed”
  10. 🔊 fold so as to resemble a cross
    “she crossed her legs”
  11. 🔊 to cover or extend over an area or time period
    “Rivers traverse the valley floor”
  12. 🔊 breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
    “cross a horse and a donkey”
  13. 🔊 meet at a point
  14. 🔊 travel across or pass over
    “The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day”
  15. 🔊 hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
    “What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 cruz cross
  2. 🔊 amurrado cross, bad tempered
  3. 🔊 atravesar to cross, to traverse
  4. 🔊 aspa cross, St. Anthony's cross

Similar words

hybridization hybridisation crossbreeding crossing interbreeding hybridizing hybrid crossbreed crisscross mark crown of thorns crossbreed hybridize hybridise interbreed traverse track cover pass over get over get across cut through cut across intersect