CROSSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crossed mean? 

• CROSSED (adjective)
  The adjective CROSSED has 2 senses:

1. placed crosswise

2. (of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it

  Familiarity information: CROSSED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROSSED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Placed crosswise

Context example:

seated with arms crossed

Similar:

cross-town; crosstown (going or extending across a town or city)

decussate; intersectant; intersecting (crossed or intersected in the form of an X)

Antonym:

uncrossed (not crossed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of a check) marked for deposit only as indicated by having two lines drawn across it

Antonym:

uncrossed ((of a check) not crossed)

 Context examples 

I have enough already upon my soul since I crossed the threshold of this cursed house.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had crossed Oxford Street and were half way down Harley Street before I could get a word from my companion.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a labyrinth of an old house, with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the generations who had crossed them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So, Lizzy, said he one day, your sister is crossed in love, I find.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

They had hardly been walking an hour when they saw before them a great ditch that crossed the road and divided the forest as far as they could see on either side.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He crossed on the ferry to San Francisco and made his way to an employment office.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He crossed no more hills or divides, but automatically followed a large stream which flowed through a wide and shallow valley.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Nor did he give the wounded bull opportunity to slake his burning thirst in the slender trickling streams they crossed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

At that moment she crossed the road, as if to avoid the footsteps that she heard so close behind; and, without looking back, passed on even more rapidly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Who was it but one of my own race who as Voivode crossed the Danube and beat the Turk on his own ground?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)