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[ kris-kraws, -kros ] / ˈkrɪsˌkrɔs, -ˌkrɒs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR crisscross ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with object)to move back and forth over: students crisscrossing the field on their way to school. to mark with crossing lines. verb (used without object)to proceed or pass back and forth; be arranged in a crisscross pattern: The streets in that part of town crisscross confusingly. adjectiveAlso crisscrossed . having many crossing lines, paths, etc. nouna crisscross mark, pattern, etc. tick-tack-toe. adverbin a crisscross manner; crosswise. awry; askew. Origin of crisscrossFirst recorded in 1810–20; variant of christcross Words nearby crisscrossCrispin, Crispinian, CRISPR, crispy, crissal, crisscross, crissum, crista, crista galli, cristate, Cristobal Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for crisscrossThe Israeli-only roads that crisscross the West Bank have come a long way since the beginning of the Second Intifada. Israeli Bypass Roads: Separate But Unequal|Maysoon Zayid|August 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST Next week, Brown will fly to Dallas and crisscross the country, stopping in California and Florida. Scott Brown's Dark Secret|Samuel P. Jacobs|February 17, 2011|DAILY BEAST If I travel 500 miles, I crisscross through five languages. Tarantino's Glorious Nazi|Paul Cullum|August 16, 2009|DAILY BEAST Another moment and Danny was at the foot of the ghostly pine-tree, staring upward at the crisscross of its naked branches. America First|Frances Nimmo Greene
It'll shoot up the canyons and crisscross the forest in no time. The Young Forester|Zane Grey It was that new Goodyear that I was tracking, the one that's all crisscross. Pee-wee Harris on the Trail|Percy Keese Fitzhugh They crisscross the face in angry red welts, and are permanent and ineffaceable. A Tramp Abroad, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) The large paper pad in front of him was covered with crisscross lines. Cue for Quiet|Thomas L. Sherred
British Dictionary definitions for crisscross
verbto move or cause to move in a crosswise pattern to mark with or consist of a pattern of crossing lines adjective(esp of a number of lines) crossing one another in different directions nouna pattern made of crossing lines a US term for noughts and crosses adverbin a crosswise manner or pattern Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to crisscrossconflicting, confused, traversed, awry |