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cross one's heart

cross one's heart verb: to attest to the truthfulness of the accompanying statement.

Verb

cross one's heart (third-person singular simple present crosses one's heart, present participle crossing one's heart, simple past and past participle crossed one's heart)

  1. (intransitive) To attest to the truthfulness of the accompanying statement.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cross, one's, heart.

Forms of cross one's heart

third-person singular presentcrosses one's heart
present participlecrossing one's heart
past participlecrossed one's heart
pastcrossed one's heart

Origin of cross one's heart

From cross (“to make the sign of the cross”).

Words formed from cross one's heart

Questions about cross one's heart

What does cross one's heart mean?
Cross one's heart means to attest to the truthfulness of the accompanying statement.
What part of speech is cross one's heart?
Cross one's heart is a verb.
What is the past tense of cross one's heart?
The past tense of cross one's heart is crossed one's heart.

Words near cross one's heart in the dictionary

  1. cross of Lorraine
  2. cross of Malta
  3. cross off
  4. cross one's arms
  5. cross one's fingers
  6. cross one's heart
  7. cross one's legs
  8. cross oneself
  9. cross out
  10. cross over
  11. cross paths

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