uncross
verbEtymology From un- + cross.
1
To move something, especially one's arms or legs, from a crossed position.
- Then she fell back on the altar and her fingers dangled loosely on its edge, her feet uncrossed and lay beside each other.1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 32:
2
To undo the crossing or traversal of.
- I want nothing more than to run through the crowd of people and throw myself into his arms, but I can't. You can't rewrite the past, and once lines have been crossed, you can't uncross them.2014, DeAnna Holland, No Place Like Home:
- “Don't call me stupid. I mean it. My parents don't ever call each other names. Name-calling and being nasty just breaks things and crosses lines you can't uncross.”2015, Abigail Tarttelin, Flick, page 201: