skirt

/skɜːt/ verb [T] ( also skirt around)

Translation

AVOID › to avoid talking about something

değinmekten kaçınmak, geçiştirmek, kaçınmak

I deliberately skirted the question of money.1859

MOVE › to move around the edge of something

etrafından dolanmak, kenarından geçip gitmek

We skirted around the edge of the field.1624

(Definition of skirt verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

to get rid of something or someone that is not wanted or needed

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