pare
Bedeutung (English)
- To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
- To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
- To trim the hoof of a horse.
- (slang) To sharpen a pencil.
Konzepte
Synonyms
nip off
cut to
operate on
shave off
slice up
snip off
chip off
crossout
cut away
extirpate
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/pɛə(ɹ)/
Etymologie (English)
In summary
From Middle English paren, from Old French parer (“to arrange, prepare, trim”), from Latin parō (“I prepare, arrange; I provide, furnish; I resolve, purpose”) (related to pariō (“I bear, I give birth to; I spawn, produce, beget; I procure, acquire”)), from a Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forward, bring forth”).
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