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DEFINITIONS OF: skip

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v jump lightly

Synonyms:
hop, hop-skip
Type of:
bound, jump, leap, spring
move forward by leaps and bounds

v cause to skip over a surface

“Skip a stone across the pond”
Synonyms:
skim, skitter
Type of:
throw
propel through the air

v bound off one point after another

Synonyms:
bound off
Type of:
bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop
spring back; spring away from an impact

v bypass

“He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible”
Synonyms:
jump, pass over, skip over
Type of:
drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit
leave undone or leave out

v leave suddenly

“skip town”
Synonyms:
decamp, vamoose
Type of:
go away, go forth, leave
go away from a place

v intentionally fail to attend

Synonyms:
cut
Types:
bunk off, play hooky
play truant from work or school
Type of:
miss
fail to attend an event or activity

n a gait in which steps and hops alternate

Type of:
gait
a person's manner of walking

n a mistake resulting from neglect

Synonyms:
omission
Types:
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failure
an unexpected omission
dashing hopes, disappointment
an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone
breach
a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
copout
a failure to face some difficulty squarely
Type of:
error, fault, mistake
a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
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