pare

Meaning

1. To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
2. To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
3. To trim the hoof of a horse.
4. (slang) To sharpen a pencil.

Synonyms

peel

shave

trim

cut

whittle

skin

shell

🐚

cut off

carve

hull

scrape off

clip

pare down

sharpen

split

plane

chop

reduce

shape

slice

cut back

shuck

chisel

retrench

pod

cut out

curtail

husk

lop

model

moult

mow

nip off

open

peel off

phrase

pierce

pinch

pluck

pull

razee

remove

resect

scissor

scrape

separate

sever

shear

sickle

skim

slit

snip

spay

stab

strip

strip off

tease

traverse

war

word

wound

cut to

operate on

reaping hook

saw off

shave off

skim off

slice up

snip off

abridge

design

arrange

behead

castration

chip off

crop

cross

crossout

cut away

decorticate

edit

edit out

enfeeble

exfoliate

expel

extirpate

fight

fix

flake

form

format

frame

gather

hew

jab

kill

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leach

lessen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɛə(ɹ)/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: paren

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”).