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Definition of Across

Across From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across. Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. Related Definitions: Across, Amiss, Arms, As, Athwart, Awry, Bridge, Crosswise, Direction, Folded, From, In, Laid, Length, Obliquely, Opposed, Or, Over, Quite, River, Side, The, To, With

Across Quotations You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. Quentin Crisp The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you; Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want; Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep. Rumi What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me? Stevie Ray Vaughan From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Winston Churchill I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point. Tea Leoni

Across Translations across in Dutch is over, overheen, aan de overkant van across in Finnish is poikki across in Latin is trans across in Norwegian is tvers over across in Spanish is travieso, allende, diametro

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