Skirting Synonyms and Antonyms

Avoid; get around
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. detouring
  2. circumventing
  3. circumnavigating
  4. bypassing
Antonyms:
  1. meeting
  2. facing
Border; be on the edge
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. verging
  2. rimming
  3. margining
  4. fringing
  5. edging
  6. bounding
  7. bordering
Antonyms:
  1. centering
Being all around the edges; enclosing
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. encircling

Words Related to Skirting

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. seeking
  2. architrave
  3. soffit
  4. bargeboard
  5. upstands
  6. tongue-and-groove
  7. paneling

Skirting Sentence Examples

  • Just like we were skirting the trespass law by poking around the mine.

  • I filled him in on the details; skirting the reason Merrill Cooms didn't report the break-in to the police.

  • He repeated his intentions to continue his education in the off season, skirting the fact he'd be kissing off the final year of his scholarship.

  • With a more direct course, and in a widening, fertile valley it continues past Downton, Fordingbridge and Ringwood, skirting the New Forest on the west, to Christchurch, where it receives the Stour from the west, and 2 z m.

  • Dean bumped along, skirting puddles but having no difficulty navigating the seldom-used route.

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