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skirting   (TTS Sound)

The verb skirt has 4 senses

• hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep -- (avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully")


• skirt -- (pass around or about; move along the border; "The boat skirted the coast")


• skirt -- (form the edge of)


• surround, environ, ring, skirt, border -- (extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property")

The adj skirting has 1 sense

• encircling, skirting -- (being all around the edges; enclosing; "his encircling arms"; "the room's skirting board needs painting")