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Definition of "cross out" []

  • To strike out; to draw a line through. (verb)

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Use "cross out" in a sentence
  • "For a few seconds he had the feeling that it was all a grotesque misunderstanding; he had an impulse to cross out his signature and to tear up the document; then everything came back to him again, he rubbed his pince-nez on his sleeve and handed the paper over the desk to Gletkin."
  • "Once, when I was about eleven years old, while we still lived in Birmingham, I had tried to make a cross out of similarly dusty, cobweb-covered two-by-fours."
  • "A Blood wears red and calls Crips “crabs”; he will cross out all c’s in his writing to show disrespect."
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