See skim off on Wiktionary
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{ "forms": [ { "form": "skims off", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "skimming off", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "skimmed off", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "skimmed off", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*" }, "expansion": "skim off (third-person singular simple present skims off, present participle skimming off, simple past and past participle skimmed off)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English phrasal verbs", "English phrasal verbs formed with \"off\"", "English terms with quotations", "English verbs", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:", "text": "There was also the influx of a third of a million road lorries, sold at giveaway prices after their war roles ceased and used by competing one-man businesses to skim off sundry agricultural freight.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "To separate (the best part of something from the remainder)." ], "links": [ [ "separate", "separate" ] ] } ], "word": "skim off" }
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