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Adjective skimmed has 1 sense
- skim, skimmed - 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"
Antonyms: fatty, fat (indirect, via nonfat)
Verb skim has 7 senses
- plane, skim - travel on the surface of water
--1 is one way to glide
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
- skim over, skim - move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of
--2 is one way to touch
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down - examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
--3 is one way to examine, see
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- skim, skip, skitter - cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"
--4 is one way to throw
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- skim - coat (a liquid) with a layer
--5 is one way to coat, surface
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
- skim, skim off, cream off, cream - remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk"
--6 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- skim, skim over - read superficially
--7 is one way to read
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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