Crossed

来自Big Physics

google

ref

late Old English (in the sense ‘monument in the form of a cross’): from Old Norse kross, from Old Irish cros, from Latin crux .


文件:Ety img crossed.png

etymonline

ref

crossed (adj.)

"made in the shape of a cross, marked by a line drawn across," past-participle adjective from  cross (v.). Figurative sense of "thwarted" is from 1620s. To be crossed out "cancelled by crossing lines" is by 1780. Crossed wires as figurative of confusion, miscommunication is by 1910.