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reading or glancing through quickly cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond" coat (a liquid) with a layer remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk" read superficially a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; "there was a thin skim of oil on the water" used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed; "yogurt made with skim milk"; "she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter" nonfat move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of travel on the surface of water examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" |
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