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skirted around

skirted around is the simple past and past participle of skirt around.

Meaning of skirt around

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

Questions about skirted around

What is skirted around the simple past and past participle of?
Skirted around is the simple past and past participle of skirt around.

Words near skirted around in the dictionary

  1. skirtage
  2. skirtalls
  3. skirtboard
  4. skirtboards
  5. skirted
  6. skirted around
  7. skirter
  8. skirters
  9. skirtest
  10. skirteth
  11. skirtful

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