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1. The act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid
    
2. Reading or glancing through quickly
   - skim
    
3. Failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it
    
4. The act of brushing against while passing
   - grazing, shaving

1. Travel on the surface of water
   - plane
    
2. Move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of
   - skim over
    
3. Examine hastily
   "She skimmed the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi";
   - scan, rake, glance over, run down
    
4. Cause to move quickly over a surface with small jumps
   "skim a stone across the pond";
   - skip, skitter
    
5. Coat (a liquid) with a layer
    
6. Remove from the surface
   "skim cream from the surface of milk"; "skim off cream from the surface of milk";
   - skim off, cream off, cream
    
7. Read superficially
   - skim over

Derived forms: skimmings

Type of: coat, examine, glide, larceny, read, reading, remotion, removal, remove, see, stealing, surface, take, take away, theft, thievery, thieving, throw, touch, touching, wing, withdraw

Encyclopedia: Skimming