"cross someone's mind" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: crosses someone's mind [present, singular, third-person], crossing someone's mind [participle, present], crossed someone's mind [participle, past], crossed someone's mind [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} cross someone's mind (third-person singular simple present crosses someone's mind, present participle crossing someone's mind, simple past and past participle crossed someone's mind)
  1. To come into someone's thoughts suddenly and fleetingly. Translations (Translations): käydä mielessä (Finnish), juolahtaa mieleen (Finnish), traverser l’esprit (French), venir à l’esprit (French), in den Sinn kommen (German), îi trece prin cap (Romanian), приходи́ть в голо́ву (prixodítʹ v golóvu) [imperfective] (Russian), прийти́ в го́лову (prijtí v gólovu) [perfective] (Russian)
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