uncross

present singular third person uncrosses · participle present uncrossing · participle past uncrossed · past uncrossed

1. transitiveTo move something, especially one's arms or legs, from a crossed position.

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

   1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 32

2. transitiveTo undo the crossing or traversal of (something).

   “Don't call me stupid. I mean it. My parents don't ever call each other names. Name-calling and being nasty just breaks things and crosses lines you can't uncross.”

   2015, Abigail Tarttelin, Flick, page 201

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   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.

   2014, DeAnna Holland, No Place Like Home