Noun

• S: (n) skimming (the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) removal, remotion (the act of removing) "he had surgery for the removal of a malignancy"
• S: (n) abscission, cutting off (the act of cutting something off)
• S: (n) abstraction (the act of withdrawing or removing something)
• S: (n) extraction (the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)) "the dentist gave her a local anesthetic prior to the extraction"
• S: (n) autotomy (spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw of a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack)
• S: (n) decontamination (the removal of contaminants)
• S: (n) deletion (the act of deleting something written or printed)
• S: (n) denudation, stripping, uncovering, baring, husking (the removal of covering)
• S: (n) dermabrasion (removal of scars or tattoos by anesthetizing the skin surface and then sanding or scraping off some of the outer skin layer)
• S: (n) dislodgment, dislodgement (forced removal from a position of advantage)
• S: (n) elimination, riddance (the act of removing or getting rid of something)
• S: (n) elimination (the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations)
• S: (n) emptying, voidance, evacuation (the act of removing the contents of something)
• S: (n) rinse, rinsing (the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing)
• S: (n) disembowelment, evisceration (the act of removing the bowels or viscera; the act of cutting so as to cause the viscera to protrude)
• S: (n) skimming (the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid)
• S: (n) withdrawal (the act of taking out money or other capital)
• S: (n) withdrawal (the act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.) "the nurse was expert at the withdrawal of blood"
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) skim, skimming (reading or glancing through quickly)
• S: (n) skimming (failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it)
• S: (n) grazing, shaving, skimming (the act of brushing against while passing)

Verb

• S: (v) plane, skim (travel on the surface of water)
• S: (v) skim over, skim (move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of)
• S: (v) scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down (examine hastily) "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi"
• S: (v) skim, skip, skitter (cause to skip over a surface) "Skip a stone across the pond"
• S: (v) skim (coat (a liquid) with a layer)
• S: (v) skim, skim off, cream off, cream (remove from the surface) "skim cream from the surface of milk"
• S: (v) skim, skim over (read superficially)