Pare \Pare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pared; p. pr. & vb. n.
Paring.]
[F. parer to pare, as a horse's hoofs, to dress or
curry, as, leather, to clear, as anchors or cables, to parry,
ward off, fr. L. parare to prepare. Cf. Empire, Parade,
Pardon, Parry, Prepare.]
1. To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or
extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's
hoof.
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2. To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin,
rind, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off
or away; as, to pare off the rind of fruit; to pare away
redundancies.
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3. Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.
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The king began to pare a little the privilege of
clergy. --Bacon.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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125 Moby Thesaurus words for "pare":
abridge, abscind, amputate, annihilate, ax, ban, bar, bark,
beat down, bisect, bob, break, butcher, carve, cheapen, chop,
cleave, clip, compress, crop, cull, curtail, cut, cut away,
cut back, cut down, cut in two, cut off, cut out, cut prices, damp,
dampen, decline, decorticate, decrease, deduct, deflate,
depreciate, depress, devaluate, dichotomize, diminish, dissever,
dive, dock, downgrade, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, except,
excise, exclude, excoriate, extinguish, extirpate, fall,
fall in price, fissure, flay, gash, give way, hack, halve, hew,
incise, isolate, jew down, jigsaw, knock off, lance, lessen, lop,
lower, mark down, mutilate, nip, nose-dive, peel, pick out,
plummet, plunge, prune, reduce, rend, retrench, rive, roll back,
root out, rule out, sag, saw, scale down, scalp, scissor,
set apart, set aside, sever, shave, shave off, shear, shorten,
shuck, simplify, skin, slash, slice, slit, slump, snip, split,
stamp out, step down, strike off, strip, strip off, sunder,
take from, take off, take out, tear, trim, truncate, tune down,
whittle, wipe out
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Pare \Pare\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pared; p. pr. & vb. n.
Paring.]
[F. parer to pare, as a horse's hoofs, to dress or
curry, as, leather, to clear, as anchors or cables, to parry,
ward off, fr. L. parare to prepare. Cf. Empire, Parade,
Pardon, Parry, Prepare.]
1. To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or
extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's
hoof.
2. To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin,
ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off
or away; as; to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away
redundancies.
3. Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.
The king began to pare a little the privilege of
clergy. --Bacon.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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