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crossing off

crossing off is the present participle and gerund of cross off.

Meaning of cross off

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To strike out; to cross out; to draw a line through.
  2. (broadly, idiomatic) To finish; to regard something as complete.
    • I can cross off another project from the list.

Questions about crossing off

What is crossing off the present participle and gerund of?
Crossing off is the present participle and gerund of cross off.

Words near crossing off in the dictionary

  1. crossing loop
  2. crossing loops
  3. crossing my heart and hoping to die
  4. crossing number
  5. crossing numbers
  6. crossing off
  7. crossing one's arms
  8. crossing one's fingers
  9. crossing one's heart
  10. crossing one's legs
  11. crossing out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crossing off (page history and authors); cross off (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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