Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to crisscross
Participle: crisscrossed
Gerund: crisscrossing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | crisscross |
| you | crisscross |
| he;she;it | crisscrosses |
| we | crisscross |
| you | crisscross |
| they | crisscross |
Perfect
| I | have crisscrossed |
| you | have crisscrossed |
| he;she;it | has crisscrossed |
| we | have crisscrossed |
| you | have crisscrossed |
| they | have crisscrossed |
Past
| I | crisscrossed |
| you | crisscrossed |
| he;she;it | crisscrossed |
| we | crisscrossed |
| you | crisscrossed |
| they | crisscrossed |
Pluperfect
| I | had crisscrossed |
| you | had crisscrossed |
| he;she;it | had crisscrossed |
| we | had crisscrossed |
| you | had crisscrossed |
| they | had crisscrossed |
Future
| I | will crisscross |
| you | will crisscross |
| he;she;it | will crisscross |
| we | will crisscross |
| you | will crisscross |
| they | will crisscross |
Future Perfect
| I | will have crisscrossed |
| you | will have crisscrossed |
| he;she;it | will have crisscrossed |
| we | will have crisscrossed |
| you | will have crisscrossed |
| they | will have crisscrossed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | crisscross |
| you | crisscross |
| he;she;it | crisscross |
| we | crisscross |
| you | crisscross |
| they | crisscross |
Perfect
| I | have crisscrossed |
| you | have crisscrossed |
| he;she;it | have crisscrossed |
| we | have crisscrossed |
| you | have crisscrossed |
| they | have crisscrossed |
Imperfect
| I | crisscrossed |
| you | crisscrossed |
| he;she;it | crisscrossed |
| we | crisscrossed |
| you | crisscrossed |
| they | crisscrossed |
Pluperfect
| I | had crisscrossed |
| you | had crisscrossed |
| he;she;it | had crisscrossed |
| we | had crisscrossed |
| you | had crisscrossed |
| they | had crisscrossed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would crisscross |
| you | would crisscross |
| he;she;it | would crisscross |
| we | would crisscross |
| you | would crisscross |
| they | would crisscross |
Perfect
| I | would have crisscrossed |
| you | would have crisscrossed |
| he;she;it | would have crisscrossed |
| we | would have crisscrossed |
| you | would have crisscrossed |
| they | would have crisscrossed |
Imperative
| you | crisscross |
| we | Let's crisscross |
| you | crisscross |
Verbs conjugated like 'crisscross'
abash,
abolish,
abroach,
accomplish,
accroach,
address,
admix,
admonish,
ado,
adpress,
affamish,
affix,
alloo,
amass,
ambush,
anguish,
annex,
appeach,
appears,
approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'crisscross'
criss-cross,
crossdress,
cross-dress,
crosspost,
incross,
misstress,
recross,
anticross,
backcross,
becross,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English crist-crosse, crists-crosse (“Christ's cross”).
2. By surface analysis, an apophonic reduplication of cross.
Sample Sentences
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As it turned out, the itinerary was disconcertingly illogical, involving criss-crossing America in anything but a straight line. [2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 71:]
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He told me about all the odd jobs he'd taken after I was born, when Michigan's economy was tanking. For one, he crisscrossed the Midwest buying old carpets from dentists' offices. [2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 112:]
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Throughout this period, and beyond, into the rest of the battle, aircraft of various types and loadouts are crisscrossing the skies in desperate harassment attacks, with the pilots having to play constant games of "guess the carrier" to decide where to land as escort carriers are hit, sunk, disappear in columns of shell splashes, or are forced to evade at angles to the wind that make landing on them impossible. [2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:22 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022:]