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UNCROSS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does uncross mean?
• UNCROSS (verb)
The verb UNCROSS has 1 sense:
1. change from a crossed to an uncrossed position
Familiarity information: UNCROSS used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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Present simple: I / you / we / they uncross ... he / she / it uncrosses
Past simple: uncrossed
Past participle: uncrossed
-ing form: uncrossing
... he / she / it uncrosses Past simple: uncrossed
Past participle: uncrossed
-ing form: uncrossing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Change from a crossed to an uncrossed position
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
She uncrossed her legs
Hypernyms (to "uncross" is one way to...):
open; spread; spread out; unfold (spread out or open from a closed or folded state)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
cross (fold so as to resemble a cross)
Context examples
It aroused him; he uncrossed his legs, sat erect, turned to me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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