skip over

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Verb

skip over - bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"

neglect, omit, leave out, pretermit, overleap, overlook, miss, drop - leave undone or leave out; "How could I miss that typo?"; "The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten"

Translations

w>skip over

vi (inf) = skip across

vi +prep obj (= pass over) → überspringen

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This causes the system to skip over higher priority work and go down the list to lower priority work.

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In short, my pent-up will to blab overflowed and he wound up interviewing me: my sordid bildungsroman as a young aesthete in the suburbs, my class consciousness awakened by other people's nicer homes, my boundary-free Jewish family, and, of course, I didn't skip over my analysis...