to cross out
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2.3
- phrasal verb
- /krɔs aʊt/
:
tachar
- If you make a mistake, just cross it out or use an eraser.
- cross out a number
And then on the next page there's some more crossed out lines and then there's this.
- And then on the next page there's some more crossed out lines and then there's this.
- And then this guy, the Kylie and Seth have crossed out his name, but he's a straight man.
- Hey man, why is the word virgin crossed out?
- So I wrote down five of my strongest political views, and I crossed them out.
- Because no contact is not effective when you are just doing this to kind of cross out the days.
- If you have not read Tom Lennon and Baron Ben Garrett's book, that's called Making Movies for Fun and Profit, and fun and profit is crossed out.
- I don't mean to cross that out, but rather just to do this, OK.
- So that's why I could cross out or divide, basically divide to one, right?
- Well, yo, you wrote Dick maybe five times, unless they're all crossed out and and one shit.
Examples
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When I noticed the error, I quickly crossed out the incorrect answers on the test.
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Biting her lip, Susan crosses out her last phrase and writes,
Fiction book (2000) -
And now we cross out games and we get points per season.
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We can immediately cross out E over E, OK, E over G# and E over B.
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Once you do that, cross out that step and all arrows leading from it.
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You just crossed out his name and put yours.
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Take a Magic Marker, cross out the word "objectivity."
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Mavis bites at her pen, looks at what she wrote, and crosses it out.
Fiction book (2001) -
Much of this graffiti had been crossed out, presumably by pro-government supporters of the Colorado Party.
Academic text (1990) -
We can narrow this down by crossing out all the children on the naughty list, who either got coal in their stockings or didn't get a visit from me.
Synonyms
171
2.0
To draw a line through writing to show it is wrong
77
3.2
To remove a shape from paper or cloth using scissors
35
1.8
To draw a line through an item on a list to show it is finished
8
3.7
Remove a name or item from a list by drawing a line through it
4
4.0
Draw lines through writing so you cannot read it
2
6.7
To remove a person or thing from an official list
1
6.2
Draw a line through words or text to show they should be ignored
1
6.4
To remove words or other information from a document to hide them
To draw a line through written words to show they are wrong
To mark an item as finished by drawing a line or writing a note
To cross out writing by drawing an X over it
Antonyms
How Marked
Surface Forms
Morphology
The verb 'cross' already conveys drawing a line through to cancel, and the particle 'out' adds a sense of removal or exclusion; combined, the meaning 'draw a line through to remove' is directly derivable from the parts. This verb+particle composition is a common, transparent pattern in English (and parallels exist in other languages), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would understand the MWE.
Etymology
The phrasal verb cross out comes from the simple act of drawing a line through a word; you cross the word out to show it is 'wrong' or 'no longer needed'. So, it means 'to remove or mark as incorrect'.