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skid

/ˈskɪd/ verb C2
  1. (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have. (intransitive)
  2. To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning. (intransitive) · They skidded around the corner and accelerated up the street.
  3. To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing. (intransitive, transitive)
  4. To protect or support with a skid or skids. (transitive)
  5. To cause to move on skids. (transitive)
  6. To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid. (transitive)

He/she/it skids · Past skidded · Past participle skidded · -ing form skidding

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Verb forms

Base form
skid
He/she/it
skids
Past
skidded
Past participle
skidded
-ing form
skidding

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