SKIMMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skimmed mean? 

• SKIMMED (adjective)
  The adjective SKIMMED has 1 sense:

1. used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed

  Familiarity information: SKIMMED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKIMMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed

Synonyms:

skim; skimmed

Context example:

she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter

Similar:

fat-free; fatless; nonfat (without fat or fat solids)

 Context examples 

We skimmed before it like a bird, the coast of the island flashing by and the view changing every minute.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He had broken through the melting snow crust, and wallowed, while the snowshoe rabbits had skimmed along on top lightly as ever.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A huge black shadow, twenty feet across, skimmed up into the air; for an instant the monster wings blotted out the stars, and then it vanished over the brow of the cliff above us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had merely skimmed over the surface of things, observing detached phenomena, accumulating fragments of facts, making superficial little generalizations—and all and everything quite unrelated in a capricious and disorderly world of whim and chance.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)