Definitions
remove the surface of
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“Truancies, rather bewilderingly, have risen among children on the programme; the government hopes this is because children skive more as they get older.”
“Mr Smith's history classes are a total skive.”
“I got the bus to school, and the driver gave me the eye, thinking I was on the skive, and I started to explain that there was something up with my head, but then I couldn't be bothered.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Slice thinly”5 letters
Not quite right?
"Search similar patterns."
S____