Uncross

verb

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Definitions

Verb

1
To move something, especially one's arms or legs, from a crossed position. transitive
"Then she fell back on the altar and her fingers dangled loosely on its edge, her feet uncrossed and lay beside each other."
2
change from a crossed to an uncrossed position wordnet
3
To undo the crossing or traversal of. transitive
"I want nothing more than to run through the crowd of people and throw myself into his arms, but I can't. You can't rewrite the past, and once lines have been crossed, you can't uncross them."

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Example

"Then she fell back on the altar and her fingers dangled loosely on its edge, her feet uncrossed and lay beside each other."

Etymology

From un- + cross.

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