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skim over

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Verb1.skim over - read superficially
skim
read - interpret something that is written or printed; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"
2.skim over - move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of
skim
touch - make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband"


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She did not skim over it, but walked down it, and guided herself by the banisters on account of her candle having died out.
Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles View in context
Even as they looked, the sea began to skim over between the floating cakes of ice, so intense was the cold; but on the horizon there was a vast red glare, and that was the light of the sunken sun.
The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
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