Definition for Skim:

• a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; " there was a thin skim of oil on the water"

Synonyms for Skim:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • skim,
  • skimmed.

• adv.

  •superficially (adverb)
  • on surface,
  • to casual eye,
  • the casual eye,
  • casual eye.

• n.

  •
  • get out,
  • weed out,
  • sail,
  • flush out,
  • take off,
  • soar,
  • take,
  • clear,
  • dislodge,
  • extract,
  • sweep away.
  •
  • appropriate,
  • collect,
  • separate,
  • ladle,
  • scoop,
  • monetize,
  • claim back,
  • earn,
  • recover,
  • cash in.
  •
  • fling,
  • project,
  • hurl,
  • toss,
  • throw,
  • lob,
  • point,
  • aim,
  • direct,
  • examine,
  • pitch.
  •
  • speed,
  • strike,
  • surge,
  • charge,
  • outpace,
  • be quick on your feet.
  •
  • look at,
  • leaf through.
  •
  • move.
  •
  • glance at,
  • flip through,
  • run-through,
  • investigate,
  • words.
  •communication (noun)
  • skimming.
  •cream off (noun)
  • cream off.
  •fat-free (noun)
  • fat-free.
  •fatless (noun)
  • fatless.
  •plane (noun)
  • plane.
  •profit (noun)
  • out turns,
  • pro fits,
  • out-puts,
  • in comes,
  • pro-duct,
  • re venue,
  • re-venue,
  • pro ducts,
  • out puts,
  • re-turns,
  • out turn,
  • out put,
  • re turns,
  • pro-fit,
  • in come,
  • in-come,
  • re venues,
  • pro fit,
  • out-put,
  • re turn,
  • Re-turn,
  • re-venues,
  • pro-fits.
  •rake (noun)
  • rake.
  •skim (noun)
  • nonfat,
  • skim off.

• v.

  •browse (verb)
  • got cream,
  • passes an eye over,
  • thumbed through wander,
  • flips through,
  • passing eye over,
  • read here there,
  • checks over,
  • leafing through,
  • inspects loosely,
  • riffled through,
  • hitting the high spots,
  • glancing at,
  • riffs through,
  • hitting high spots,
  • hit high spots,
  • glances at,
  • giving the once over,
  • giving once over,
  • passed an eye over,
  • passes eye over,
  • examined cursorily,
  • skipped through,
  • gives the once over,
  • glanced at,
  • onced over lightly,
  • getting cream,
  • reading here there,
  • runs through,
  • skipping through,
  • skips through,
  • oncing over lightly,
  • hits high spots,
  • riffing through,
  • onces over lightly,
  • gotten the cream,
  • get cream,
  • gave the once over,
  • flipping through,
  • getting the cream,
  • riffles through,
  • passed eye over,
  • reads here there,
  • got the cream,
  • reads here and there,
  • thumbs through wander,
  • gets the cream,
  • passing an eye over,
  • gotten cream,
  • reading here and there,
  • flipped through,
  • gets cream,
  • leafed through,
  • gives once over,
  • give once over,
  • thumbing through wander,
  • riffed through,
  • gat the cream,
  • inspected loosely,
  • pass eye over,
  • checking over,
  • riffling through,
  • examines cursorily,
  • examining cursorily,
  • hits the high spots,
  • inspecting loosely,
  • leafs through,
  • gave once over,
  • gat cream.
  •contact (verb)
  • skim over.
  •dart (verb)
  • moving quickly.
  •deprive (verb)
  • dis-inheriting,
  • dis possessing,
  • de nude,
  • be reft,
  • dis-mantles,
  • de spoils,
  • dis-robe,
  • dis-inherit,
  • dis inheriting,
  • de-spoiled,
  • de-nudes,
  • be reaves,
  • dis-robed,
  • dis robes,
  • dis possess,
  • de-spoil,
  • stiffing,
  • dis-mantling,
  • dis mantling,
  • dis-mantled,
  • dis-mantle,
  • dis robe,
  • dis mantles,
  • be-reaves,
  • be-reft,
  • dis-robes,
  • dis-possessing,
  • dis possesses,
  • de-spoils,
  • de nudes,
  • dis-inherits,
  • be reaving,
  • de-nude,
  • be-reave,
  • dis-inherited,
  • dis inherits,
  • de spoiling,
  • be-reaved,
  • dis-robing,
  • dis mantle,
  • dis inherited,
  • dis possessed,
  • dis inherit,
  • de spoiled,
  • dis robing,
  • be-reaving,
  • dis-possess,
  • dis mantled,
  • de-spoiling,
  • be reaved,
  • be reave,
  • dis-possessed,
  • de spoil,
  • dis robed,
  • dis-possesses.
  •dip into (verb)
  • rifles through,
  • thumbs through,
  • playing at,
  • rifling through,
  • rifled through,
  • thumbed through,
  • glancing over,
  • glanced over,
  • runs over,
  • played at,
  • thumbing through,
  • dip in to,
  • glances over,
  • plays at.
  •drift (verb)
  • go that a ways,
  • go-that-a-waying,
  • go-that-a-wayed,
  • go that a wayed,
  • go that a waying,
  • wast carried along,
  • go that a way,
  • goes with tide,
  • go-that-a-ways,
  • went with the tide,
  • wert carried along,
  • are carried along,
  • going with tide,
  • is carried along,
  • go with tide,
  • kicks around,
  • am carried along,
  • going with the tide,
  • art carried along,
  • were carried along,
  • was carried along,
  • went with tide,
  • goes with the tide,
  • being carried along.
  •embezzle (verb)
  • mis appropriates,
  • puts hand till,
  • mis appropriating,
  • put hand till,
  • mis applied,
  • mis-appropriates,
  • mis using,
  • mis-appropriate,
  • mis-used,
  • puts hand in till,
  • mis apply,
  • mis-apply,
  • mis applies,
  • mis appropriate,
  • mis applying,
  • mis-applying,
  • de falcate,
  • puts hand cookie jar,
  • putting hand in till,
  • putting hand till,
  • mis appropriated,
  • mis-applies,
  • de-falcate,
  • putting hand in cookie jar,
  • mis used,
  • mis-appropriated,
  • putting hand cookie jar,
  • mis-applied,
  • mis-appropriating,
  • de falcated,
  • de-falcated,
  • put hand cookie jar,
  • puts hand in cookie jar,
  • mis-using.
  •float (verb)
  • am buoyant,
  • moving gently,
  • rest water,
  • stayed afloat,
  • slips along,
  • rests water,
  • smoothed along,
  • slipped along,
  • is buoyant,
  • slipping along,
  • slipt along,
  • was buoyant,
  • resting on water,
  • stays afloat,
  • resting water,
  • being buoyant,
  • rested water,
  • moves gently,
  • rested on water,
  • moved gently,
  • wert buoyant,
  • are buoyant,
  • staid afloat,
  • wast buoyant,
  • smoothing along,
  • staying afloat,
  • smooths along,
  • rests on water,
  • art buoyant,
  • were buoyant.
  •fly (verb)
  • bending throttle,
  • re aching,
  • jetted over,
  • took a hop,
  • flat-hatted,
  • flat hatted,
  • bends throttle,
  • bending the throttle,
  • flat-hats,
  • jetting out,
  • took hop,
  • seagulled,
  • bend the throttle,
  • skies out,
  • flat hat,
  • bent the throttle,
  • jets out,
  • flathatted,
  • jets over,
  • re-ached,
  • takes wing,
  • jetted out,
  • bent throttle,
  • bended throttle,
  • remaining aloft,
  • takes hop,
  • winging in,
  • bended the throttle,
  • skyed out,
  • flat-hatting,
  • skying out,
  • re-aching,
  • takes a hop,
  • taking hop,
  • flathats,
  • wings in,
  • takes flight,
  • flathat,
  • flat hats,
  • skied out,
  • bends the throttle,
  • winged in,
  • bend throttle,
  • remained aloft,
  • took wing,
  • take hop,
  • taking a hop,
  • seagulling,
  • flathatting,
  • jetting over,
  • re ached,
  • remains aloft,
  • taking wing,
  • flat hatting.
  •glance (verb)
  • re bounding,
  • re bounded,
  • re bounds,
  • re bound,
  • sideswiping,
  • re-bound,
  • re-bounds,
  • re-bounding,
  • re-bounded.
  •glide (verb)
  • de scending,
  • de-scended,
  • skirrs,
  • de-clines,
  • skirring,
  • de scend,
  • de clines,
  • de scends,
  • skirred,
  • de-scend,
  • de-scends,
  • de cline,
  • de-cline,
  • de scended,
  • de-scending.
  •glide over quickly, lightly (verb)
  • kiss,
  • coast,
  • trip.
  •go over (verb)
  • re iterates,
  • re-vising,
  • re iterated,
  • re-hearse,
  • re-peats,
  • re-peat,
  • re vising,
  • re vised,
  • re vise,
  • re peat,
  • in-spect,
  • re hearse,
  • re-iterates,
  • re hearses,
  • re-iterated,
  • in spects,
  • re-iterate,
  • re peats,
  • re iterate,
  • re-vised,
  • in-spects,
  • re-vise,
  • re-hearses,
  • in spect,
  • re-iterating,
  • re iterating.
  •graze (verb)
  • glancing off,
  • glances off,
  • glanced off.
  •peruse (verb)
  • looks through,
  • pores over,
  • pored over,
  • looking through.
  •race (verb)
  • out-strip,
  • out strips,
  • out-stripped,
  • out strip,
  • plunging ahead,
  • out-stripping,
  • plunges ahead,
  • plunged ahead,
  • out-strips.
  •read (verb)
  • de ciphering,
  • de ciphered,
  • un ravels,
  • trans late,
  • dis-covered,
  • buries in,
  • trans-lated,
  • de-cipher,
  • de-ciphers,
  • un-ravels,
  • de-ciphered,
  • dis covering,
  • un ravel,
  • buries oneself in,
  • un-ravel,
  • de-ciphering,
  • dis covered,
  • refers to,
  • scratches the surface,
  • un-ravelled,
  • dis-covers,
  • dis covers,
  • scratched the surface,
  • scratched surface,
  • un-raveling,
  • de cipher,
  • burying oneself in,
  • un-ravelling,
  • un ravelled,
  • un-raveled,
  • burying in,
  • scratching surface,
  • un raveling,
  • un ravelling,
  • de ciphers,
  • buried oneself in,
  • bury in,
  • dis-cover,
  • scratch surface,
  • dis-covering,
  • un raveled,
  • scratches surface,
  • dis cover.
  •remove (verb)
  • dis lodge,
  • dis-missing,
  • dis place,
  • dis-charges,
  • un load,
  • dis charges,
  • dis charge,
  • dis carding,
  • re-legate,
  • dis-cards,
  • de posing,
  • up rooted,
  • un-seated,
  • de-thrones,
  • dis-card,
  • dis-charging,
  • de throned,
  • dis-placing,
  • de-tach,
  • de-throning,
  • dis lodged,
  • un loaded,
  • up-rooting,
  • re-moving,
  • de taches,
  • torn out,
  • carries away,
  • tare out,
  • un-loads,
  • dis cards,
  • un-seating,
  • re-move,
  • digged out,
  • with drawn,
  • dis-places,
  • dis-lodges,
  • re legate,
  • dis lodges,
  • dis charging,
  • dis-lodge,
  • dis-missed,
  • digging out,
  • tore out,
  • up-root,
  • de thrones,
  • re move,
  • dis placing,
  • un seating,
  • re-legates,
  • un seats,
  • dis-lodged,
  • re-moved,
  • ex-tract,
  • carrying away,
  • carries off,
  • up-roots,
  • de-throne,
  • rips out,
  • dis missing,
  • un loads,
  • dis-carding,
  • with-drawn,
  • de pose,
  • re moves,
  • up-rooted,
  • dis carded,
  • ex-tracts,
  • un-seat,
  • un seated,
  • up rooting,
  • with-drew,
  • dis charged,
  • dis card,
  • re moving,
  • un loading,
  • tears out,
  • with-drawing,
  • re-moves,
  • trans ported,
  • up root,
  • un seat,
  • un-load,
  • dis-place,
  • de-posed,
  • ex tract,
  • with drawing,
  • dis places,
  • de-taches,
  • de posed,
  • re legates,
  • dis-placed,
  • de throning,
  • de-throned,
  • with drew,
  • carted off,
  • digs out,
  • re moved,
  • clears away,
  • de throne,
  • de-posing,
  • with draw,
  • dis-carded,
  • dis lodging,
  • dug out,
  • dis placed,
  • de-pose,
  • dis missed,
  • dis-charge,
  • un-seats,
  • with draws,
  • tearing out,
  • de tach,
  • with-draw,
  • up roots,
  • carrying off,
  • carting off,
  • dis-lodging,
  • carts off,
  • dis-charged.
  •remove the top part (verb)
  • graze,
  • ream.
  •run (verb)
  • dis-solved,
  • dis solves,
  • dis-solves,
  • dis solving,
  • turns liquid,
  • going soft,
  • went soft,
  • dis-solving,
  • dis solved,
  • goes soft,
  • dis-solve,
  • turned to liquid,
  • dis solve,
  • turns to liquid,
  • turning to liquid,
  • turning liquid,
  • turned liquid,
  • turn liquid.
  •sail (verb)
  • gets under way,
  • gotten under way,
  • made headway,
  • makes headway,
  • gat under way,
  • casting anchor,
  • put sea,
  • puts to sea,
  • got under way,
  • casts anchor,
  • puts sea,
  • putting sea.
  •scan (verb)
  • looks and down,
  • having a look-see,
  • having look see,
  • hadst look-see,
  • re-gard,
  • haddest looksee,
  • hath a look see,
  • in-quired,
  • give once-over,
  • give onceover,
  • having a looksee,
  • haddest a look-see,
  • sized up,
  • looks up down,
  • had look see,
  • over looks,
  • over-looking,
  • looking up down,
  • had a look-see,
  • hast look see,
  • haddest a look see,
  • hast looksee,
  • look up down,
  • re gards,
  • had a looksee,
  • gives onceover,
  • hath a looksee,
  • look and down,
  • over look,
  • takes gander,
  • give the onceover,
  • looks up and down,
  • hath looksee,
  • giving onceover,
  • has look see,
  • in quired,
  • in quiring,
  • giving the once-over,
  • hast a look see,
  • over-looks,
  • gives once-over,
  • hadst look see,
  • took gander,
  • hath look-see,
  • takes a gander,
  • have looksee,
  • had a look see,
  • looking up and down,
  • gave once-over,
  • giving once-over,
  • giving the onceover,
  • hadst a looksee,
  • took a gander,
  • hadst looksee,
  • gave the onceover,
  • has a look-see,
  • have look see,
  • in-quiring,
  • take gander,
  • hath a look-see,
  • looked up and down,
  • hath look see,
  • in quire,
  • had looksee,
  • looked down,
  • looked and down,
  • hadst a look-see,
  • having looksee,
  • over looked,
  • gives the once-over,
  • looked up down,
  • having a look see,
  • in-quire,
  • having look-see,
  • gives the onceover,
  • taking stock of,
  • gave onceover,
  • looks down,
  • over-look,
  • in quires,
  • taking a gander,
  • hast a look-see,
  • haddest a looksee,
  • taking gander,
  • had look-see,
  • haddest look-see,
  • haddest look see,
  • has looksee,
  • in-quires,
  • hast look-see,
  • has a looksee,
  • took stock of,
  • looking and down,
  • takes stock of,
  • has a look see,
  • has look-see,
  • sizes up,
  • hadst a look see,
  • have a look see,
  • hast a looksee,
  • have look-see.
  •scurry (verb)
  • steps along,
  • scuttering,
  • hopped along,
  • scuttered,
  • stepping along,
  • stepped along,
  • hopping along,
  • hops along.
  •shave (verb)
  • de corticate,
  • de-corticate,
  • slicing thin,
  • made bare,
  • slices thin,
  • makes bare,
  • sliced thin,
  • de-corticated,
  • making bare,
  • de corticated.
  •skate (verb)
  • sails along,
  • roller skated,
  • ice skate,
  • ice skates,
  • sailing along,
  • sailed along,
  • ice skating,
  • ice skated.
  •skip (verb)
  • hippety hopped,
  • hippety hops,
  • hippetyhopping,
  • hippety-hopping,
  • hippetyhopped,
  • hippety-hops,
  • hippetyhops,
  • hippety-hopped,
  • hippetyhop,
  • hippety hopping.
  •slide (verb)
  • scooching,
  • moving over,
  • moved over,
  • moving along,
  • scooches,
  • scooched,
  • moves along,
  • moves over.
  •summarize (verb)
  • re-caps,
  • puts in nutshell,
  • retro grades,
  • putting a nutshell,
  • retro graded,
  • re-capping,
  • re hashes,
  • got to meat,
  • re-view,
  • out lining,
  • re capitulate,
  • re viewed,
  • gotten meat,
  • gets to meat,
  • boiling down,
  • out-line,
  • out lines,
  • re caps,
  • gat meat,
  • re viewing,
  • re capitulates,
  • putting in a nutshell,
  • re-capitulated,
  • put nutshell,
  • re hashing,
  • re-capped,
  • get meat,
  • retro-grades,
  • giving main points,
  • re capitulating,
  • retro grade,
  • re views,
  • re capping,
  • putting nutshell,
  • gets meat,
  • re capitulated,
  • re-capitulates,
  • getting meat,
  • out line,
  • gat to meat,
  • out-lines,
  • retro-grading,
  • re view,
  • gives main points,
  • puts a nutshell,
  • retro-graded,
  • re hash,
  • boiled down,
  • re-viewed,
  • puts in a nutshell,
  • re-hashing,
  • out-lining,
  • put a nutshell,
  • re-hash,
  • out-lined,
  • putting in nutshell,
  • gave main points,
  • re-views,
  • out lined,
  • got meat,
  • re hashed,
  • re cap,
  • re-hashes,
  • gotten to meat,
  • retro grading,
  • re-capitulate,
  • puts nutshell,
  • re capped,
  • getting to meat.
  •top (verb)
  • de-capitate,
  • detruncates,
  • de-truncated,
  • de capitate,
  • filed off,
  • scraped off,
  • shaved off,
  • de-truncates,
  • de truncates,
  • scraping off,
  • de truncating,
  • de truncated,
  • lops off,
  • files off,
  • Detruncating,
  • de truncate,
  • scrapes off,
  • de-truncating,
  • de-truncate,
  • lopping off,
  • Detruncated,
  • shaves off,
  • filing off.
  •touch (verb)
  • finger,
  • palm,
  • paw,
  • ply,
  • feel,
  • caress,
  • rub,
  • palpate,
  • manipulate,
  • contact,
  • touch,
  • twiddle.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • plow,
  • page through,
  • flick through,
  • flick.
  •
  • riffle,
  • Roust,
  • thumb,
  • ricochet.
  •
  • poke.
  •
  • whisk.
  •
  • flip,
  • snap.
  •
  • shoot.
  •
  • dip,
  • whip.
  •
  • turn.
  •browse
  • inspect loosely,
  • pass an eye over,
  • skip through,
  • read here and there,
  • examine cursorily,
  • get the cream,
  • once over lightly,
  • riff through,
  • checked over,
  • riffle through,
  • hit the high spots,
  • check over,
  • give the once over,
  • thumb through wander.
  •flit
  • Fleeted,
  • fleet,
  • Winging.
  •glide
  • spiralling,
  • spiraled,
  • glissade,
  • Slank,
  • spiralled,
  • slinks,
  • spiraling,
  • Skirr.
  •go over
  • looked at,
  • looking at,
  • looks at.
  •run
  • turn to liquid,
  • Fluxing,
  • diffused,
  • Fluxed,
  • go soft,
  • diffuses,
  • diffusing,
  • running.
  •run-down
  • run down.
  •sail
  • captaining,
  • skippered,
  • captained,
  • motoring,
  • motored,
  • Boated,
  • make headway,
  • Embarking,
  • put to sea,
  • putting to sea,
  • making headway,
  • get under way,
  • cast anchor,
  • Voyaged,
  • getting under way,
  • skippering.
  •scud
  • gusted,
  • scudding,
  • gusting.
  •top
  • Pollarding,
  • shave off,
  • scrape off,
  • Reamed,
  • Pollarded,
  • Creaming,
  • pollard,
  • detruncate,
  • Creamed,
  • file off,
  • pollards,
  • lop off,
  • lopped off,
  • shaving off.

Paraphrases for Skim:

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    skimmed, skimmed-milk.

Antonyms for Skim:

• v.

  • glide over quickly, lightly
    land, walk.
  • remove the top part
    pour.
  • Other antonyms:
    labor, flounder, study, bump, thwack, punch, gaze, limp, bang, collide, fat, stare, knock, stumble, swipe, pry, impact, stamp, peer, ram, leer, impinge, view, toil, overlook, question, shuffle, goggle, ogle, smack, struggle, lumber, shamble, thud, crash, gawk, smash, whack, stump, slam, pore, trudge, bash, plod, stomp, slap, fatty, rubberneck, survey, clash.

Skim Sentence Examples:

• It has about the same amount of nutrients as skim milk.

• All that is greatest in their art, indeed, lies on the borderland of the extravagant, where sublime things skim the thin ice of absurdity.

Homophones for Skim:

• seyhan, showman, secession, shmo, sene, sea onion, seaman, scummy, sea mew, sachem, shem, sami, Shinney, sexism, scene, shame, susquehanna, shoshonian, sewn, sienna, seine, smew, same, someway, shine, skein, simenon, sigyn, saone, schumann, scion, siouan, shawm, samoan, sion, sisham, simoom, saman, sajama, sign, shogun, simeon, schism, Shiism, session, sana, sashimi, sun, snowman, sign in, sima, sen, siam, sinai, sian, shina, sequin, sawm, shoshone, shoshoni, somehow, sage hen, scone, season, szechwan, someone, suck in, shoeshine, sison, sawan, shahn, seamy, sheen, som, sicken, sea anemone, schmo, sunny, simoon, schwann, soigne, skin, SAAME, sinewy, sichuan, seize on, soma, sikhism, schema, siwan, sezession, shiny, samia, seem, Shona, sam, scum, sign away, somme, some, shawn, socinian, sin, simian, Shah Jahan, saxony, seam, sm, schizogony, scheme, sesame, siskin, skinny, semen, snow, saxon, shin, suomi, sixsome, swain, sanaa, sum, sium, Swagman, sunni, sheeny, son, shan, Shema, sagina, simony, succession, senna, shoshonean, sone, syzygium, sumo, sign on, snowy, sown, swim, sikkim, scission, sow in, sham, simon, sn, shawnee, sigma, scan, saigon, sachsen, soon, shoo-in, synonymy, scam, shun, scammony, sciaena, soman, semi, segno, Sunnah, shannon, squaw man, shaggymane, Sq In, Susanna, shinny, sesamum, sinew, shammy, shim, samoa, shaman, six-gun, succussion, seminoma, shimmy, syconium, shaken, Sison Amomum, Sana'a, seism, shanny, summon, swan, swami, swoon, susian, squama, soignee, shawny, suasion, sonny, Susiana, sechuana, synonym, szechuan, sane, sauna, sine, Sunna, swine, saginaw, SAAMI.

Hypernym for Skim:

• v.

  • motion
    aquaplane.

Hyponym for Skim:

• n.

  • communication
    reading.
  • object
    covering, cover, natural covering.

• v.

  • contact
    surface, coat, touch.
  • motion
    glide.