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# skimmed

verb, past form of skim (skim, skims, skimmed, skimming); adjective (skimmed milk)

«skimmed» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Skimmed is the past of skim: read quickly, moved just over the top of something, or took the top layer off. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#m1)
2. As an adjective, skimmed milk is milk with most of the fat (cream) taken off. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#m2)

### In the lessons

In stories: «She skimmed the letter», «the bird skimmed the lake». In health and food lessons, skimmed milk has less fat than whole milk. In the USA people usually say «skim milk»; in the UK, Ireland and Australia «skimmed milk».

### Examples

- She skimmed the book and then chose it from the library. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x1)
- The stone skimmed across the water four times. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x2)
- A gull skimmed the waves looking for fish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x3)
- I like skimmed milk on my cereal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x4)
- He skimmed the menu and ordered pizza. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x5)
- Mum skimmed the foam off the jam. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x6)
- The plane skimmed the tops of the trees. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x7)
- A few bats skimmed his nose now and again and scared him half to death. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/#x8)

### Note

Past and past participle of skim; note the double m. «Skimmed milk» (UK) = «skim milk» (US). Skimmed milk still has calcium and protein; only most of the fat is gone.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «skimmed» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skimmed/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«skimmed» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/skimmed.html) on Mova free.