Usually means: Minor, brief, scattered fighting engagements.
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  1. skirmishing: Merriam-Webster
  2. skirmishing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. skirmishing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Skirmishing, skirmishing: Wordnik
  5. skirmishing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. skirmishing: Wiktionary
  7. skirmishing: Dictionary.com
  8. Skirmishing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Skirmishing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Skirmishing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. skirmishing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. skirmishing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. skirmishing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. skirmishing: Legal dictionary

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noun:  A brief battle; a skirmish.

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