skive

/skʌɪv/

US pronunciation

American sound/skʌɪv/

skive

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

US voice -> skive

Myanmar meaning

အလုပ်ကို ရှောင်သည်။ ကျောင်းပြေးသည်။

Full entry

skive /skaÇv/ v ~ (off) (Brit infml )

(အလုပ်မှ)လစ်သည်။
‘Where's Tom?’ ‘Skiving as usual!’ ❍ She always skives off early.

More examples

‘So we skived off for another cup of tea and I lent him my towel.’
‘It was a warm, sunny Thursday and Belinda had skived off her unofficial work to join Astor for some sunbathing.’
‘He skived off quite a lot to go to band warm up session and meet people in the industry and it obviously paid off!’
‘I'm not sure what he was getting so upset about, but I think he was partly mad because some people had skived off the rehearsal.’
‘If I hadn't skived off work early to go see, I'd have been angry at the waste of my time.’
‘I had said to myself that I would go to the gym after Dame G and Dr Sir T but I skived off and watched News 24 instead.’
‘You think I skived off without blogging anything today, right?’
‘Then how do you know I skived off two other classes?’
‘I always wondered what Wibbler got up to whilst apparently skiving from his blog duties.’
‘He had come back having skived off on his birthday, so the lads had made sure he'd stay there.’
‘BA admits that not one single check-in worker has been disciplined in recent years for bunking off or skiving.’
‘He won't be able to accuse me of having sold it on the black market and skived off with the proceeds.’
‘I'm not completely skiving, though - Friday was sick leave, and today was a day of ‘education’ at a local ‘learning centre’.’
‘In the end, I skived off to a side street and made myself as inconspicuous as possible so I could get up to date.’
‘Having said that, being a professional skiver, I have devised tactics, strategies and contingency plans to prolong skiving.’
‘But seeing as though you're reading this, you're probably already on first-name terms with office skiving.’
‘Children have been skiving off school for years.’
‘In my own book I have included a chapter on skiving.’
‘It doesn't seem to matter how old I am, driving away from the office at any time before 5: 30 pm always feels like skiving.’
‘Truancy officers caught 154 children skiving between September and December last year, 42 of whom were with their parents.’

Synonyms

amputate, behead, bisect, bite, bob, carve, chine, chip, chisel, chop, cleave, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut short, decorticate, decrease, decussate, detach, detruncate, dice, disengage, dispatch, dissect, dissever, divide, dock, eliminate, exclude, facet, fell, flay, flitch, gash, guillotine, gut, hack, hash, hew, intersect, knock off, lacerate, lay open, level, lop, lower, mark down, massacre, mince, mow, mow down, nick, notch, pare, pare down, part, peel, penetrate, perforate, pierce, pollard, prune, puncture, quarter, rabbet, raze, reap, reduce, rend, rip, rive, saber, saw, scalp, scarify, scissor, score, scrape, scythe, separate, sever, shape, shave, shear, shorten, sickle, skin, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, sliver, snip, strip, thin, top, trim, trim off, truncate, uncover

Antonyms

accept, attach, bear, build, close, combine, connect, construct, cover, create, elongate, enlarge, expand, extend, give birth, grow, include, increase, join, lengthen, mend, raise, sew, spend, squander, unite, waste, welcome

Cross references

amputate behead bisect bite bob carve chine chip chisel chop cleave clip crop curtail cut cut back cut down cut short decorticate decrease decussate detach detruncate dice disengage dispatch dissect dissever