"cross the river" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crosses the river",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossing the river",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossed the river",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossed the river",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "cross the river (third-person singular simple present crosses the river, present participle crossing the river, simple past and past participle crossed the river)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "langcode": "en",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Horton Davies, Marie-Helene Davies, David Cain, How Far Down Dare I Drink?: Promises Greater Than Dreams, page 82:",
          "text": "He had come back over the frontier of death. nails, spears, and a cross. Today bombs, mines, torpedoes, and shells. The same death. But death has lost its sting since Jesus crossed the river.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of pass the river (to die)"
      ],
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        {
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          "word": "pass the river"
        }
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    }
  ],
  "word": "cross the river"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crosses the river",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossing the river",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossed the river",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossed the river",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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    }
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  "pos": "verb",
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        "en:Death"
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Horton Davies, Marie-Helene Davies, David Cain, How Far Down Dare I Drink?: Promises Greater Than Dreams, page 82:",
          "text": "He had come back over the frontier of death. nails, spears, and a cross. Today bombs, mines, torpedoes, and shells. The same death. But death has lost its sting since Jesus crossed the river.",
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        }
      ],
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        "Synonym of pass the river (to die)"
      ],
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          "pass the river#English"
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  "word": "cross the river"
}