skirt around en · VERB
Meanings
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To circumvent, to bypass, to go around in order to avoid.
Yet the reality in Japan was far more gruesome than the artful depiction in the film, which skirts around the human suffering caused by the bomb.
2023 July 21, Rachel Hall, “Anti-nuclear groups welcome Oppenheimer film but say it fails to depict true horror”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| skirted around | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| skirted around | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| skirting around | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| skirts around | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Relateds
tap dance around · talk around · dance around
Translations (6)
fi vältellä (circumvent) · mi taku (circumvent) · fi kierrellä (circumvent) · nl omzeilen (circumvent) · fi kiertää (circumvent) · cmn 迴避 /回避 (circumvent)