criss-cross
verb [transitive, intransitive]Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they criss-cross | |
he / she / it criss-crosses | |
past simple criss-crossed | |
past participle criss-crossed | |
-ing form criss-crossing |
to make a pattern on something with many straight lines that cross each other 构成十字形(或交叉)图案 - criss-cross (something)
Searchlights were criss-crossing the sky. 探照灯在天空纵横交错。 The smaller streets criss-cross in a grid pattern. 较小的街道呈网格状交叉排列。 - be criss-crossed with something
The city is criss-crossed with canals. 这座城市里运河纵横交错。
More Like This Reduplicative wordsReduplicative wordsWord Originearly 17th cent. (denoting a figure of a cross preceding the alphabet in a hornbook, an old fashioned teaching aid): from Christ-cross (in the same sense in late Middle English), from Christ's cross. The form was later treated as a reduplication of cross.- criss-cross (something)