Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to skim
Participle: skimmed
Gerund: skimming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | skim |
| you | skim |
| he;she;it | skims |
| we | skim |
| you | skim |
| they | skim |
Perfect
| I | have skimmed |
| you | have skimmed |
| he;she;it | has skimmed |
| we | have skimmed |
| you | have skimmed |
| they | have skimmed |
Past
| I | skimmed |
| you | skimmed |
| he;she;it | skimmed |
| we | skimmed |
| you | skimmed |
| they | skimmed |
Pluperfect
| I | had skimmed |
| you | had skimmed |
| he;she;it | had skimmed |
| we | had skimmed |
| you | had skimmed |
| they | had skimmed |
Future
| I | will skim |
| you | will skim |
| he;she;it | will skim |
| we | will skim |
| you | will skim |
| they | will skim |
Future Perfect
| I | will have skimmed |
| you | will have skimmed |
| he;she;it | will have skimmed |
| we | will have skimmed |
| you | will have skimmed |
| they | will have skimmed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | skim |
| you | skim |
| he;she;it | skim |
| we | skim |
| you | skim |
| they | skim |
Perfect
| I | have skimmed |
| you | have skimmed |
| he;she;it | have skimmed |
| we | have skimmed |
| you | have skimmed |
| they | have skimmed |
Imperfect
| I | skimmed |
| you | skimmed |
| he;she;it | skimmed |
| we | skimmed |
| you | skimmed |
| they | skimmed |
Pluperfect
| I | had skimmed |
| you | had skimmed |
| he;she;it | had skimmed |
| we | had skimmed |
| you | had skimmed |
| they | had skimmed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would skim |
| you | would skim |
| he;she;it | would skim |
| we | would skim |
| you | would skim |
| they | would skim |
Perfect
| I | would have skimmed |
| you | would have skimmed |
| he;she;it | would have skimmed |
| we | would have skimmed |
| you | would have skimmed |
| they | would have skimmed |
Imperative
| you | skim |
| we | Let's skim |
| you | skim |
Verbs conjugated like 'skim'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'skim'
shim,
skid,
skimp,
skin,
skip,
skit,
skum,
slim,
stim,
swim,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English skemen, skymen, variants of scumen, from Old French escumer (“to remove scum”), from escume (“froth, foam”), from Frankish *skūm (“froth, foam”), from Proto-Germanic *skūmaz (“foam”), from Proto-Indo-European *skew- (“to cover, conceal”). See scum. See: Old French '
escumer'.
Verbs referencing "skim"
Dutch
skimmen.
Sample Sentences
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Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, / Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. [1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:]
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Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean. [1817, William Hazlitt, The Round Table:]
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They skim over a science in a very night superficial survey. [1741, I[saac] Watts, The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logick: […], London: […] James Brackstone, […], →OCLC:]
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Ceilings are lined with fibrous asbestos, the internal plastering being reduced to skimming alone. [1924, The Architect, volume 112, page 291:]
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skimming stones
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(through)
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I skimmed the newspaper over breakfast.
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to skim milk
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to skim broth
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to skim cream
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Obviously, the longer cash sits around before being recorded, the more likely it is that a skimming fraud will occur. [2006, Herbert Snyder, Small Change, Big Problems, page 48:]
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[…] take this money without entering anything into the record-keeping system, thereby accomplishing a theft by skimming. [2009, Tracy L. Coenen, Expert Fraud Investigation: A Step-by-Step Guide, page 109:]