Akademik

cut across
verb
1. travel across or pass over (Freq. 4)
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The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day

Syn:
traverse, ↑track, ↑cover, ↑cross, ↑pass over, ↑get over, ↑get across, ↑cut through
Derivationally related forms: ↑crossing (for: ↑cross), ↑track (for: ↑track), ↑traverse (for: ↑traverse), ↑traverser (for: ↑traverse), ↑traversal (for: ↑traverse)
Hypernyms: ↑pass, ↑go through, ↑go across
Hyponyms:
tramp, ↑stride, ↑walk, ↑crisscross, ↑ford, ↑bridge, ↑jaywalk, ↑drive, ↑take, ↑course, ↑hop
Verb Frames:
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Something is ——ing PP

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Somebody ——s something

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Somebody ——s PP

2. be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations (Freq. 2)
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Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines

Hypernyms: ↑be
Verb Frames:
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Something ——s something

3. cut using a diagonal line
Syn: ↑crosscut
Derivationally related forms: ↑crosscut (for: ↑crosscut)
Hypernyms: ↑cut
Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something


Useful english dictionary. 2012.