skirt
/skɚt/ verb C2- To be on or form the border of. · The plain was skirted by rows of trees.
- To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of. · skirt a mountain
- To cover with a skirt; to surround.
- To avoid or ignore (something); to manage to avoid (something or a problem); to skate by (something). · Near-synonym: circumvent· skirt the issue
He/she/it skirts · Past skirted · Past participle skirted · -ing form skirting
Verb forms
- Base form
- skirt
- He/she/it
- skirts
- Past
- skirted
- Past participle
- skirted
- -ing form
- skirting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Here!” cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, and she jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen on to the heads of the crowd below, and there they lay sprawling about, reminding her very much of a globe of goldfish she had accidentally upset the week before.
I’m going up to see if I can borrow a skirt pattern from Mrs.
Oh, how pretty it was--a lovely soft brown gloria with all the gloss of silk; a skirt with dainty frills and shirrings; a waist elaborately pintucked in the most fashionable way, with a little ruffle of filmy lace at the neck.
Mind you keep your skirt clear of the wheel, Anne, and put your warm jacket on.”
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