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Meanings of skitter in English

Catalan
escapolir-se

To move about or proceed hurriedly.

escapolir-se

Cause to skip over a surface.

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Examples for "skip"
Examples for "skip"
1
So I'll just skip to the point: we have a major problem.
The Fuller Memorandum
2
Problem is, your self-restraint is so good you often skip meals altogether.
Cook yourself thin: skinny meals you can make in minutes
3
In my experience, health insurance is simply a payment to skip queues.
The Irish Times
4
Honestly, I could skip work entirely and he wouldn't know the difference.
This is where we live
5
If I don't have something good to say, I skip the subject.
Within arm's reach
1
Semihard; skim; blue-veined; made of all three milks: cow, goat and sheep.
The Complete Book of Cheese
2
A quick skim through Twitter reveals what really shook people this year.
The Irish Times
3
It let the agency skim uncounted millions of dollars from the plan.
Legacy of ashes: the history of the cia
4
Semisoft; sour skim milk with salty flavor from curing in brine bath.
The Complete Book of Cheese
5
When it has boiled skim it, and then put in the plums.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Usage of skitter in English
1
Cards and chips and bills go flying, then skitter across the floor.
Rogues
2
Watching my thoughts skitter through my chaotic mind is excruciating for me.
The game on! diet: kick your friend's butt while shrinking your ...
3
Murphy dropped the Bradfield, letting it skitter away across the silicon roof.
The Reality Dysfunction
4
He puts the cigarettes down on the worktable where they skitter, wind-shifted.
Kings of the earth: a novel
5
But while it did skitter around me, it never came any nearer.
Fortune's Pawn
6
Alia lay back and relaxed, letting the scorpions skitter over her body.
Paul of dune
7
The skitter of dirt cascading from the undersurface of the hatch cover.
Devil Bones
8
It's causing the magnetic North Pole to 'skitter' away from Canada, towards Siberia.
News.com.au
9
We heard Isabel's bare feet skitter across the linoleum in the living room.
The bay at midnight
10
They skitter-screeched forward at an angle, heading straight for the flatbed.
Fire With Fire
11
He saw Tasslehoff skitter across the courtyard and into a doorway.
Dragons of autumn twilight
12
The mutts fall to their bellies and skitter toward us on all fours.
Mockingjay
13
Eliana's eyes skitter without purchase across the scene unfolding before her.
Future Lovecraft
14
Even then we haven't missed anything large enough to hide up a skitter.
The Heart of Unaga
15
The recoil caused the gun to skitter across the concrete floor towards the thug.
Slow decay
16
Even though Adesina's mind wanted to skitter away from that memory, it rose up.
Dangerous Women
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