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Noun crosse has 1 sense
- crosse - a long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse
--1 is a kind of racket, racquet
Verb cross has 8 senses
- traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across - travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
--1 is one way to pass, go through, go across
Sample sentence:
These men cross the river
- intersect, cross - meet at a point
--2 is one way to meet, ran into, encounter, run across, come across, see
Sample sentences:
Our properties cross at this point
His fields cross mine at this point
- thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk - hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
--3 is one way to prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot cross Sue
- cross - fold so as to resemble a cross; "she crossed her legs"
--4 is one way to fold, fold up, turn up
Antonyms: uncross
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- cross, traverse, span, sweep - to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"
--5 is one way to cover, extend
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- cross - meet and pass; "the trains crossed"
--6 is one way to intersect, cross
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- cross - trace a line through or across; "cross your `t'"
--7 is one way to write
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed - breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"
--8 is one way to breed
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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