pare

Meaning

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

Translations

pelar

schälen

peler

schillen

rogner

sbucciare

éplucher

mondar

tailler

descascar

pellen

mondare

subseco

ξεφλουδίζω

snoeien

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”).