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Readers who have been disappointed by a cursory skim of the book should reread it in order to discover its hidden treasures. If you skim something from the surface of a liquid, you remove. Skimmed over definition of skimmed over by the free dictionary. Audio pronunciations, verb conjugations, quizzes and more.
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