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skims off

skims off is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 skims off

What is skims off the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Skims off is the third-person singular simple present indicative of skim off.

Words near skims off in the dictionary

  1. skimping
  2. skimpingly
  3. skimps
  4. skimpy
  5. skims
  6. skims off
  7. skims through
  8. skin
  9. skin a flint
  10. skin and blister
  11. skin and blisters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skims 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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