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double-crossed

double-crossed is the simple past and past participle of double-cross.

Meaning of double-cross

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To betray or go back on; to deceive someone after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were being aided.
    • If you double-cross us, we'll track you down and kill you.
  2. (transitive) Of breeding, to cross twice in hybridization, as (A × B) × (C × D); for example, in commercial hybrid seed corn, A through D are classically inbreds, and their grandoffspring is the seed for sale.

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Questions about double-crossed

What is double-crossed the simple past and past participle of?
Double-crossed is the simple past and past participle of double-cross.

Words near double-crossed in the dictionary

  1. double-counts
  2. double-course
  3. double-crested cormorant
  4. double-crested cormorants
  5. double-cross
  6. double-crossed
  7. double-crosser
  8. double-crossers
  9. double-crosses
  10. double-crossing
  11. double-crossings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: double-crossed (page history and authors); double-cross (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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