cross out

phrasal verb

crossed out; crossing out; crosses out

: to draw a line through (something) to show that it is wrong

cross out a mistake

He had crossed his name out.

Examples of cross out in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Mahmoud Thabet, a Palestinian Red Crescent paramedic who was on the team that brought the bodies to the hospital, told The Associated Press the workers were in a three-car convoy that was crossing out of northern Gaza when an Israeli missile hit. —Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy, and Tia Goldenberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Apr. 2024

Written on the two-piano score in red ink are Holst’s instructions for orchestration; elsewhere, there are large sections crossed out, and notes in margins about whose handwriting is whose, and where that changes. —Hugh Morris, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024

Schlosberg is planning to cross out every name on the ballot. —Kim Hjelmgaard and Anna Nemtsova, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024

There are tools to make highlights and annotations, and to cross out multiple-choice responses students think are wrong. —Dana Goldstein, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024

Said confession happens later in the book, and—if his pen strokes crossing out this section of the script are an indicator—Herbert was not a fan of the change. —Max Evry, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2024

None of it made a lot of sense — these slides of mountain landscapes and strangers in climbing gear, those yellowing newspaper clippings in Spanish where her mother crossed out every suggestion that her daughter ever wanted to die alone. —John Branch, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2023

That slide showed some controversial aspects of the first slide crossed out. —Bryan Hendricks, arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2023

Products that are sold out or no longer discounted as of publishing will be crossed out. —Brenda Stolyar, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023