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skirting around

skirting around is the present participle and gerund 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 skirting around

What is skirting around the present participle and gerund of?
Skirting around is the present participle and gerund of skirt around.

Words near skirting around in the dictionary

  1. skirtful
  2. skirtfuls
  3. skirtie
  4. skirties
  5. skirting
  6. skirting around
  7. skirting board
  8. skirting boards
  9. skirting-board
  10. skirting-boards
  11. skirtingly

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