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— English words —

• skim v. (Intransitive) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
• skim v. (Transitive) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
• skim v. To hasten along with superficial attention.
• skim v. To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
• skim v. (Transitive) To throw an object so it bounces on water.
• skim v. (Intransitive) To ricochet.
• skim v. (Transitive) To read quickly, skipping some detail.
• skim v. (Transitive) To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface.
• skim v. (Transitive) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil…
• skim v. (Transitive) To clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream…
• skim v. To steal money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
• skim v. To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.
• skim v. (Intransitive) To become coated over.
• skim adj. (Of milk) Having lowered fat content.
• skim n. A cursory reading, skipping the details.
• skim n. (Informal) Skim milk.
• skim n. The act of skimming.
• skim n. That which is skimmed off.
• skim n. Theft of money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Afrikaans
  • skim n. A shade, a shadow, a spectre.
• Indonesian
  • skim n. Skim milk: non-fat milk; milk that has had the cream removed.
• Malay
  • skim n. Scheme.

— English words, defined in French —

• skim v. Écrémer (au sens propre), enlever de la surface à l’aide d’une cuillère, d’une spatule ou d’un grattoir.
• skim v. Écrémer (au sens figuré), rendre meilleur par sélection.
• skim v. Écumer, enlever l’écume → voir skimmer.
• skim v. Peler un matériau ou une surface, enlever par strates.
• skim v. Glisser sur la surface d’un liquide, surfer une surface, ricocher.
• skim v. Survoler très près de la surface (en général avec notion de rapidité).
• skim v. Lire rapidement, lire en diagonale.
• skim v. Diminutif de skimboard.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• skim adj. Desnatado.
• skim v. Ricochetear.
• skim v. Ler superficialmente.
• skim v. Desnatar.

— In Dutch —

• skim w. Eerste persoon enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van skimmen.
• skim w. Gebiedende wijs van skimmen.
• skim w. (Bij inversie) tweede persoon enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van skimmen.

107 English words from 22 English definitions

act along along␣with attention avoiding become been before bounces brush business by␣means␣of card clear coat coated content course cream cursory detail details detection especially even fat fat␣content finishing floating for fraudulent from glide had has hasten Having Informal information in␣order in␣order␣to Intransitive its lightly liquid lowered lying means milk money near non object obtain of␣a off on␣it order over pass payment payment␣card plaster purposes put put␣on quickly read reading recorded remove removed ricochet scan Scheme scrape scrape␣off scum shade shadow Skim skimmed skimmed␣off Skim␣milk skimming skipping smooth some something spectre steal substance superficial surface surreptitiously swiftly that the Theft throw thus transaction Transitive utensil water which with

15 English words from 15 foreign definitions

aide grattoir Ler lire notion par propre rendre sens skimboard skimmer spatule surface surfer van

1 foreign word from 22 English definitions

has␣been

53 foreign words from 15 foreign definitions

à␣l’aide au␣sens␣figuré au␣sens␣propre avec Bij cuillère de␣la Desnatado Desnatar diagonale Diminutif Écrémer écume Écumer Eerste Eerste␣persoon en␣général enkelvoud enlever figuré Gebiedende Gebiedende␣wijs général Glisser inversie liquide lire␣en␣diagonale matériau meilleur Peler persoon près près␣de rapidement rapidité ricocher Ricochetear sélection sens␣figuré sens␣propre skimmen strates superficialmente sur Survoler tegenwoordige␣tijd tijd très tweede tweede␣persoon une voir wijs

87 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

skimo 'skimo skimp skims skimmy 'skimos skimps skimpy ski␣mask skimmed skimmel skimmer skimmia skim␣off skimped skimper skim␣pit ski␣masks skimback skim-coat skim␣coat skimmels skimmers Skimmery skimmest skimmeth skimmias skim␣milk skimming skimmity skimpers skimpier skimpies skimpily skimping skim␣pits skim-read skims␣off skimbacks skimboard skim-coats skim␣coats skimelton skimmable skimmered skim␣milks skimmings skimobile skimpiest skim-reads +37 words

102 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

Eskimo baskimo Eskimau Eskimos reskims baskimos Eskimaus Eskimoan Eskimoes Eskimoic unskimpy disk␣image Eskimauan Eskimoans eskimoite Eskimo␣pie Eskimo␣Pie muskimoot overskims reskimmed unskimmed cream-skims disk␣images Eskimauans Eskimoized Eskimo-kiss Eskimo␣kiss Eskimology Eskimoness Eskimo␣pies Eskimo␣Pies Eskimo␣roll muskimoots reskimming sea␣skimmer blue␣skimmer Eskimo-Aleut Eskimo␣rolls overskimmed Palæeskimo Paleoeskimo Paleo-Eskimo Proto-Eskimo sea␣skimmers sea␣skimming semi-skimmed black␣skimmer blue␣skimmers cream-skimmed Eskimo-kissed +52 words

5 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

poskim reskim overskim cream-skim cream␣skim

3 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Kim ski -ski

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

Kims

35 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

Amisk kamis Kasim Keims khims Khims kimes Kimes Kishm Klims Komis kumis makis micks Micks mikes Mikes mikos milks minks Minsk mirks Miska Miske Miski Misko mokis Simek skimo 'skimo skimp skims skrim smick smirk

28 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Ims IMs IMS IS-K ism ISM -ism Kim kis kms KMS ksi KSI Mis MIs MIS mis- mks MKs MKS MK's MSI sim Sim SIM ski -ski SMK

25 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

DKIM saim shim Shim SHIM skid ski'd skie skil skin skio skip Skip skis skit skiv skum slim Slim SLiM spim stim swim Swim SWIM

6 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

Kim sim Sim SIM ski -ski

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

skrim

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