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By meaning 1
To slack off:
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By meaning 1
To slack off:

Examples

29 sentences

  1. She skived off school.

    Вона прогуляла школу. — deniko

    ruОна прогуляла школу. — sharptoothed

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  2. Did Tom use to skive school?

    ruТом прогуливал школу? — Wezel

    dePflegte Tom die Schule zu schwänzen? — Espi

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  3. Why don't we skive off school today?

    deWarum schwänzen wir heute mal nicht die Schule? — Naina

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Meaning

2 senses

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, informal)To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.

    schwänzen

    сачкова́тьsačkovátʹ

  2. To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of.

More definitions
  • remove the surface of

Origin

Probably from French esquiver (“slink away”), from Middle French esquiver (“to escape”), f

Probably from French esquiver (“slink away”), from Middle French esquiver (“to escape”), from Spanish esquivar (“to avoid, reject, elude”), from esquivo (“contemptuous, loathsome”), itself from Old French eschiver, of East Germanic origin, from Gothic *𐍃𐌺𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍃 (*skiuhs, “afraid, barefaced”), from Proto-Germanic *skeuhaz (“afraid, frightened”). Cognate with English shy, eschew.

Probably from Dutch schijf (“slice”), probably influenced by shive. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skībǭ (“a shaving; slice”).

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Forms

skives, skiving, skived, skived

regular · Lesson

Base formskive · to skive
3rd person singularskives
Present participleskiving
Past simpleskived
Past participleskived

Tenses

skive · skived · will skive · have skived

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyskive
he, she, itskives

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave skived
he, she, ithas skived

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill skive

Past simpleLesson

all personsskived

Synonyms

4 synonyms
(UK)To avoid one's lessons or work:skipB2skive offplay hookyplay truant

Word family

1 related words
Derivedskiver

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
skitskittishskittleskivvyskua

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