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skirtingadjective having a border in commonthe house hunters loved the property, but they were a bit leery of the skirting swamp abutting, adjacent, adjoining, bordering, conterminous, contiguous, flanking, flush, fringing, joining, juxtaposed, neighboring, touching, verging approximate, close, closest, immediate, near, nearby, nearest, next-door, nighattached, communicating, connected, connecting, interconnecting, joined, linked, unitedbounding, circumjacent, embracing, encircling, enclosing(also inclosing), fencing, rimming, surroundingmarginal, peripheral, tangent, tangentialambient, encompassing nonadjacent, noncontiguous apart, detached, disconnected, discrete, free-standing, isolate, isolated, removed, separate, single, unattached, unconnected, unlinkedaway, distant, far, faraway, far-off, farthest, remotediscontinuous, noncontinuousbroken up, disjoined, dissevered, dissociated, disunited, divided, divorced, parted, ramified, resolved, severed, split, sundered, uncoupled, unyoked skirtingnounthe line or relatively narrow space that marks the outer limit of somethingthe skirting on the saddle was a slightly darker shade of leather border, borderline, bound, boundary, brim, circumference, compass, confines, edge, edging, end, frame, fringe, hem, margin, perimeter, periphery, rim, skirt, verge ambitbrink, crest, curb, cusp, lipceiling, maximumdemarcation, extent, limitation, measure, mere, restriction, terminationborderland, frontier, march, outskirts, pale, selvagelapshore center, core, heartinner, inside, interior, middle, within skirtingverbpresent participle of skirtto avoid by going aroundskirted the construction zone bypassing, circumnavigating, circumventing, detouring leapfroggingavoiding, dodging, ducking, eluding, escaping, eschewing, evading, fleeing, shaking, shunning confronting, facing, meetingaccepting, courting, embracing, pursuing, seeking, welcoming to avoid having to comply with (something) especially through clevernessthe new bill would make it harder for companies to skirt environmental regulations beating, bypassing, circumventing, dodging, getting around, shortcutting, sidestepping avoiding, ducking, eluding, end-running, escaping, eschewing, evading, outflanking, shaking, shirking, shunningdisobeying, disregarding, flouting, ignoringaverting, deflecting, diverting, obviating, parrying, preventing, warding (off) complying (with), following, keeping, obeying, observing acceding (to), acquiescing (to), assenting (to)accepting, courting, embracing, pursuing, seeking, welcomingcatching, contracting, incurring to be adjacent tothe commercial district skirts the river's edge abutting, adjoining, bordering (on), butting (on or against), flanking, fringing, joining, marching (with), neighboring, touching, verging (on) attaching (to), communicating (with), connecting (with), linking (with)bounding, embracing, encircling, enclosing(also inclosing), fencing, lining, margining, rimming, surroundingcontacting, converging, meeting to serve as a border forthe wooden fence that skirts the construction site bordering, bounding, edging, framing, fringing, margining, rimming hemming, trimmingcircumscribing, defining, delineating, demarcating, outlining, silhouetting, sketching, tracingcircling, compassing, encircling, enclosing(also inclosing), environing, girdling, girthing, looping, ringing, rounding, surrounding, wallingchecking, confining, controlling, curbing, limiting, restraining, restricting in 1764 |