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skimmed off

skimmed off is the simple past and past participle of skim off.

Meaning of skim off

Verb

skim off (third-person singular simple present skims off, present participle skimming off, simple past and past participle skimmed off)

  1. To separate (the best part of something from the remainder).
    • There was also the influx of a third of a million road lorries, sold at giveaway prices after their war roles ceased and used by competing one-man businesses to skim off sundry agricultural freight.2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51

Questions about skimmed off

What is skimmed off the simple past and past participle of?
Skimmed off is the simple past and past participle of skim off.

Words near skimmed off in the dictionary

  1. skimmability
  2. skimmable
  3. skimmed
  4. skimmed milk
  5. skimmed milks
  6. skimmed off
  7. skimmed through
  8. skimmel
  9. skimmels
  10. skimmelton
  11. skimmeltons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skimmed off (page history and authors); skim off (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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