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doublecrossing

doublecrossing is the present participle and gerund of doublecross.

doublecrossing is the alternative form of double-crossing.

Meaning of double-crossing

Noun

double-crossing (countable and uncountable, plural double-crossings)

  1. Betrayal; a double-cross.
    • Why have you brought Tilehurst here?—that's what I want to know […] There must be some funny double-crossing going on for you to let me talk as I did and never say that he was in it.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London

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Forms of doublecrossing

pluraldoublecrossings

Questions about doublecrossing

What is doublecrossing the present participle and gerund of?
Doublecrossing is the present participle and gerund of doublecross.

Words near doublecrossing in the dictionary

  1. doublecloths
  2. doublecortin
  3. doublecross
  4. doublecrossed
  5. doublecrosses
  6. doublecrossing
  7. doublecrossings
  8. doubled
  9. doubled back
  10. doubled down
  11. doubled in brass

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