transitive verb. To remove the outer covering or skin of with a knife or similar instrument.

transitive verb. To remove by or as if by cutting, clipping, or shaving.

transitive verb. To reduce, as in quantity or size; trim.

noun. An obsolete form of. pair.

To trim by cutting or shaving off thin slices or flakes from the surface or the extremities: as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof, or one's nails; to pare old or worn-out grass-land.

To reduce by cutting away superficial parts; diminish by little and little; cut down.

To remove by or as by cutting, clipping, or shaving: with off or away: as, to pare off the rind of fruit; to pare away redundancies.

Synonyms Pare, Peel, Shave off. To pare is to remove the surface only with a knife or similar instrument; to peel is to pull off the skin or rind. “That is peeled which is deprived of a natural layer or integument spread over it.” (C. J. Smith, Synonyms Discriminated, p. 603.) The figurative uses of these two words are limited. Shave or shave off still seems figurative when not implying the use of a razor, and is controlled in its meaning by that original sense; hence it is always limited to dressing off the surface.

noun. Among the Maoris of New Zealand, the carved ornament or ornamentation about a door.

transitive verb. To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of

transitive verb. To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, rind, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away.

transitive verb. Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.

verb. to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife

verb. to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off

verb. to trim the hoof of a horse

verb. decrease gradually or bit by bit

verb. cut small bits or pare shavings from

verb. strip the skin off

verb. remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size

"Still, we will again pare away your illogic and help you out with your argument."

cheeseparing  pare away  pare down  pare off  parer  

cut  decrease  lessen  minify  

Adair  Aer  Altair  Astaire  Ayre  

abridge  abscind  amputate  annihilate  ax  

pared  pares  paring