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skirt around

skirt around verb: to circumvent, to bypass, to go around in order to avoid.

Verb

skirt around (third-person singular simple present skirts around, present participle skirting around, simple past and past participle skirted around)

  1. To circumvent, to bypass, to go around in order to avoid.
    • Yet the reality in Japan was far more gruesome than the artful depiction in the film, which skirts around the human suffering caused by the bomb.2023 July 21, Rachel Hall, “Anti-nuclear groups welcome Oppenheimer film but say it fails to depict true horror”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of skirt around

third-person singular presentskirts around
present participleskirting around
past participleskirted around
pastskirted around

Questions about skirt around

What does skirt around mean?
Skirt around means to circumvent, to bypass, to go around in order to avoid.
What part of speech is skirt around?
Skirt around is a verb.
What is the past tense of skirt around?
The past tense of skirt around is skirted around.

Words near skirt around in the dictionary

  1. skirrhus
  2. skirring
  3. Skirrow
  4. skirrs
  5. skirt
  6. skirt around
  7. skirt chaser
  8. skirt chasers
  9. skirt dance
  10. skirt dances
  11. skirt dancing

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