MEANING
Draw or mark sets of parallel lines crossing one another.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- crosshatch a drawing
- crosshatched shading
On the page
She crosshatched the shaded section of the drawing.
Word forms
- Base
- crosshatch
- Past tense
- crosshatched
- Past participle
- crosshatched
- Present participle
- crosshatching
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- crosshatch
- Present continuous
- am/is/are crosshatching
- Present perfect
- have/has crosshatched
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been crosshatching
- Past
- crosshatched
- Past continuous
- was/were crosshatching
- Past perfect
- had crosshatched
- Past perfect continuous
- had been crosshatching
- Future
- will crosshatch
- Future continuous
- will be crosshatching
- Future perfect
- will have crosshatched
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been crosshatching
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: crosshatch; crosshatches; crosshatched; crosshatched; crosshatching Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: crosshatches.
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