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across
preposition
1 I ran across the street:
to the other side of, from one side of … to the other, over, throughout the width/expanse of, covering, everywhere on, on all parts of.
2 they lived across the river from us:
on the other side of, over, beyond, past.
word linksacross
trans- related prefix, as in transfer, transatlantic