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Synonyms of skirt in English:

skirt


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See Spanish definition of falda

verb

1‘he did not go through the city but skirted it’

SYNONYMS
go round, move round, walk round, circle, circumnavigate

2‘the fields that skirted the highway were full of cattle’

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border, edge, flank, fringe, line, lie alongside

3‘he had carefully skirted round the subject of Elise’

SYNONYMS
avoid, evade, steer clear of, sidestep, dodge, circumvent, bypass, pass over, fight shy of
ignore, overlook, gloss over, fail to mention
informal duck
Australian, New Zealand informal duck-shove