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cross over

cross over is the alternative form of crossover.

Verb

cross over (third-person singular simple present crosses over, present participle crossing over, simple past and past participle crossed over)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To pass from one side or area, physical or abstract, to another.
    • To reach the other bank of the river, we tried crossing over on a log.
    • Not many actors are so easily able to cross over from television to film.
  2. (euphemistic, intransitive) To die.
    • Sarah's grandmother crossed over last night.
    Synonyms:
    go home, go to be with the Lord, pass, pass away, pass over

Meaning of crossover

Adjective

crossover (not comparable)

  1. Of an electrical cable, having connector pins at one end wired to different pins at the other; for example, pin 1 to pin 2, pin 2 to pin 4 etc.; contrasted with straight-through.
    1. Configured so that the transmit signals at one end are connected to the receive signals at the other.

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Synonyms of cross over

Forms of cross over

third-person singular presentcrosses over
present participlecrossing over
past participlecrossed over
pastcrossed over

Origin of cross over

* (to die): From the belief that the soul of the dead crosses over a river (as the Jordan or Styx) when one dies.

Questions about cross over

What does cross over mean?
Cross over means to pass from one side or area, physical or abstract, to another.
What is cross over the alternative form of?
Cross over is the alternative form of crossover.
What part of speech is cross over?
Cross over is a verb.
What is the past tense of cross over?
The past tense of cross over is crossed over.

Words near cross over in the dictionary

  1. cross one's fingers
  2. cross one's heart
  3. cross one's legs
  4. cross oneself
  5. cross out
  6. cross over
  7. cross paths
  8. cross pattée
  9. cross peen hammer
  10. cross peen hammers
  11. cross potence

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cross over (page history and authors); crossover (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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