skived

Verb (1)

skive (third-person singular simple present skives, present participle skiving, simple past and past participle skived)

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal) To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
   • Truancies, rather bewilderingly, have risen among children on the programme; the government hopes this is because children skive more as they get older.2006, The Economist, Young offenders: Arrested development

   Synonyms:

   skive off, skip, play hooky, play truant

Verb (2)

skive (third-person singular simple present skives, present participle skiving, simple past and past participle skived)

1. To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of.
   • In the leather industry skive has another connotation, concerning splitting the skin perpendicularly to its thickness into thin layers. Imagine now being able to skive at the nanoscale.2009, Geoffrey A. Ozin, André C. Arsenault, Ludovico Cademartiri, Nanochemistry: A Chemical Approach to Nanomaterials, →ISBN, page 99

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