verb
- Travel across or pass over.
- usage: "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
- synonyms: traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through
- Be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations.
- usage: "Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines"
- Cut using a diagonal line.
- synonyms: crosscut
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