cross over
— phrasal verb with cross uk/krɒs/us/krɑːs/verb
to change from one activity or style to another:
Charles crossed over from blues to gospel.
to become popular with a new group of people:
The group's traditional black soul sound has crossed over to white audiences.
to start to affect a new group of people, animals, or things:
Scientists will try to determine whether the virus has crossed over to any other species.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Changing
- a new broom sweeps clean idiom
- about-turn
- alter
- alternate
- alternation
- bastardize
- convert
- move the goalposts idiom
- move with the times idiom
- new
- new broom
- onto
- polymorphous
- reverse
- swing
- transform
- transitional
- transmogrify
- transmute
- turn (sb/sth) into sb/sth
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