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Pare

//pɛə// name, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A Bantu language spoken in Tanzania.
Verb
  1. 1
    To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife. transitive

    "Victor pared some apples in preparation to make a tart."

  2. 2
    decrease gradually or bit by bit wordnet
  3. 3
    To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off. transitive

    "Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget."

  4. 4
    remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size wordnet
  5. 5
    To trim the hoof of a horse.
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  1. 6
    remove the skin from wordnet
  2. 7
    To sharpen a pencil. Ireland, slang
  3. 8
    cut small bits or pare shavings from wordnet

Etymology

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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