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Adjective skirting has 1 sense
- encircling, skirting - being all around the edges; enclosing; "his encircling arms"; "the room's skirting board needs painting"
Antonym: central (indirect, via peripheral)
Verb skirt has 4 senses
- hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep - avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully"
--1 is one way to avoid
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- skirt - pass around or about; move along the border; "The boat skirted the coast"
--2 is one way to travel by, pass by, surpass, go past, go by, pass
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- skirt - form the edge of
--3 is one way to bound, border
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- surround, skirt, border - extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property"
--4 is one way to touch, adjoin, meet, contact
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