uncross

From un- +‎ cross.

• Rhymes: -ɒs

uncross (third-person singular simple present uncrosses, present participle uncrossing, simple past and past participle uncrossed)

1. (transitive) To move something, especially one's arms or legs, from a crossed position.
   • 1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 32:

     Then she fell back on the altar and her fingers dangled loosely on its edge, her feet uncrossed and lay beside each other.

2. (transitive) To undo the crossing or traversal of.
   • 2014, DeAnna Holland, No Place Like Home:

     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.

   • 2015, Abigail Tarttelin, Flick, page 201:

     “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.”