crisscrossed

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criss·cross

(krĭs′krôs′, -krŏs′)

v. criss·crossed, criss·cross·ing, criss·cross·es

v.tr.

1. To mark with crossing lines.

2. To move back and forth through or over: crisscrossed the country on a speaking tour.

v.intr.

To move back and forth.

1. A mark or pattern made of crossing lines.

2. A state of being at conflicting or contrary purposes.

adj.

Crossing one another or marked by crossings.

adv.

In a manner or direction that crosses or is marked by crossings.

[Alteration of Middle English Cristcrosse, mark of a cross, short for Cristcross (me speed), may Christ's cross (give me success).]

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crisscrossed

adj

crossed over each other

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Adj.

crisscrossed - marked with crossing lines

crisscross

reticular, reticulate - resembling or forming a network; "the reticulate veins of a leaf"; "a reticulated highway system"

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The plaster, discolored by the steam of many wash-days, was crisscrossed with cracks from the big earthquake of the previous spring.

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It was crisscrossed in every direction with long straight lines, sometimes running parallel and sometimes converging toward some great circle.

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Laboriously claimed from the sea, crisscrossed by canals and spotted with windmills, the tiny country produced a vibrant bourgeois society with an astonishing artistic legacy, in what has been called the Dutch golden age (2).

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Founded in 1886, its first president, Dean William MacDonald, crisscrossed the state, spreading, as Homer Ulrich described in the centennial history of MTNA, "the gospel of music." The state's railroads provided free transportation to visit all the state's schools in the interest of the association.

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