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Verb: skim off
  1. Remove from the surface
    "skim off cream from the surface of milk";
    - skim, cream off, cream
     
  2. Pick the best
    - cream off

Derived forms: skimmed off, skims off, skimming off

Type of: choose, pick out, remove, select, take, take away, withdraw

Nearest

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