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crosslive

crosslive is the alternative form 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

Forms of crosslive

third-person singular presentcrosslives
present participlecrossliving
past participlecrosslived
pastcrosslived

Questions about crosslive

What is crosslive the alternative form of?
Crosslive is the alternative form of cross-live.

Words near crosslive in the dictionary

  1. crosslinking
  2. crosslinkings
  3. crosslinks
  4. Crosslins
  5. crosslit
  6. crosslive
  7. crosslived
  8. crossliver
  9. crosslivers
  10. crosslives
  11. crossliving

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crosslive (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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