skimverb
uk/skɪm/us/skɪm/-mm-skim verb (MOVE ABOVE)
[ I or T ] to move quickly just above a surface without touching it:
[ T ] UK US skip to throw a flat stone horizontally over water so that it touches and rises off the surface several times:
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Movement through the air
- airborne
- flight
- flit
- float
- flown
- fly
- glide
- levitate
- lift
- skip
- soar
- swish
- swishy
- swoop
- track
- waft
- wheel
- wing
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skim verb (CONSIDER QUICKLY)
[ I or T ] to read or consider something quickly in order to understand the main points, without studying it in detail:
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Reading
- cross-reference
- deconstruct
- deconstruction
- devour
- dyslexia
- flip
- hermeneutic
- leaf through sth
- peruse
- read sth over/through
- readable
- reader
- readership
- reading
- reading knowledge
- reference
- riffle
- run your eye over sth idiom
- thumb
- thumb through sth
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skim verb (REMOVE)
[ T ] to remove something solid from the surface of a liquid:
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Preparing food
- butter
- can't boil an egg idiom
- caramelize
- carve
- clarified
- cube
- dice
- fold
- knead
- leaven
- liquidize
- malt
- marinade
- salt
- slow food
- spice
- stuffed
- sweeten
- thicken
- thin
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skim verb (STEAL)
[ T ] to secretly use a piece of equipment that records someone's credit card details in order to use their credit card account illegally
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Stealing
- abscond
- aggravated burglary
- appropriate
- armed robbery
- break in/break into sth
- duff
- larceny
- liberate
- light-fingered
- loot
- looting
- mug
- relieve
- rip sth off
- rob
- robbery
- run off with sth
- scrump
- sting
- whip
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