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skimming off

skimming off is the present participle and gerund 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 skimming off

What is skimming off the present participle and gerund of?
Skimming off is the present participle and gerund of skim off.

Words near skimming off in the dictionary

  1. skimmianine
  2. skimmias
  3. skimmilk
  4. skimmilks
  5. skimming
  6. skimming off
  7. skimming through
  8. skimmingly
  9. skimmings
  10. skimmington
  11. skimmingtons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skimming 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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