Crossed

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /kɹɒst/

Definitions

1. Marked with one or more lines intersecting or overlapping ; positioned with limbs folded over each other ; having gone across or through something ; having betrayed trust or acted against someone
2. Characterized by intersecting lines or shapes ; situated with arms or legs folded ; having moved from one side to another ; having broken loyalty or caused harm to an ally
3. Identified by interwoven lines or patterns ; placed with limbs overlapping ; having traveled through or beyond a location ; having acted in opposition or treachery

Etymology: "Crossed" is the past tense and past participle of "cross," so the history below belongs to that verb. The noun it comes from, "cross," arrived in English from Old Norse "kross" in the Old English period, though its roots reach back to Latin "crux," the word for the instrument of execution. Old English had its own word for the sacred object, "rōd," which survives today in "rood." The Latin-derived noun gradually displaced it, and the native word now lives on mainly in that surviving term. The sense of two lines intersecting, without any religious meaning, appears only from the late 14th century. Much of the verb's range of meanings, from crossing a road to crossing one's arms, grows out of this geometric and physical sense of a line passing over another.

Synonyms: intersected, mingled, merged, traversed

Antonyms: separated, disjoined