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cross-lives

cross-lives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cross-live.

Meaning of cross-live

Verb

cross-live (third-person singular simple present cross-lives, present participle cross-living, simple past and past participle cross-lived)

  1. (intransitive) To live full-time in a gender role different from that associated with the sex one was assigned at birth.
    • For example, there apparently is a clinic in Canada that makes people crosslive for a year before giving them hormones!1996, Geri Nettick, Beth Elliot, Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual, New York, NY: Masquerade Books, →ISBN, page 332

Questions about cross-lives

What is cross-lives the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Cross-lives is the third-person singular simple present indicative of cross-live.

Words near cross-lives in the dictionary

  1. cross-list
  2. cross-live
  3. cross-lived
  4. cross-liver
  5. cross-livers
  6. cross-lives
  7. cross-living
  8. Cross-McKusick-Breen syndrome
  9. cross-member
  10. cross-members
  11. cross-modal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cross-lives (page history and authors); cross-live (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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