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pare

to cut off the outer coating, layer, or part of: pare an apple

Not to be confused with:

pair – two things that are matched for use together: a pair of socks; a married, engaged, or dating couple; two mated animals; a pair of horses

pear – an edible fruit; the tree itself: partridge in a pear tree

pare

(pâr)

tr.v. pared, par·ing, pares

1. To remove the outer covering or skin of with a knife or similar instrument: pare apples.

2. To remove by or as if by cutting, clipping, or shaving: pared off the excess dough; pared fat from the budget.

3. To reduce, as in quantity or size; trim: pare expenses.

[Middle English paren, from Old French parer, to prepare, trim, from Latin parāre, to prepare; see perə- in Indo-European roots.]

par′er n.

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pare

(pɛə)

vb (tr)

1. to peel or cut (the outer layer) from (something)

2. to cut the edges from (the nails); trim

3. to decrease bit by bit

[C13: from Old French parer to adorn, from Latin parāre to make ready]

ˈparer n

Paré

(French pare)

(Biography) Ambroise (ɑ̃brwaz). 1510–90, French surgeon. He reintroduced ligature of arteries following amputation instead of cauterization

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pare

(pɛər)

v.t.

1. to cut off or trim the outer coating, layer, edge, or part of: to pare an apple; to pare one's nails.

2. to reduce or remove by or as if by cutting; diminish or decrease gradually (often fol. by down): to pare down expenses.

[1275–1325; Middle English < Middle French parer to make ready, trim < Latin parāre to prepare]

Pare

parings collectively; the amount pared or cut off, 1430.

Example: pare of men.

pare

Past participle: pared
Gerund: paring

Imperative
pare
pare

Present
I pare
you pare
he/she/it pares
we pare
you pare
they pare

Preterite
I pared
you pared
he/she/it pared
we pared
you pared
they pared

Present Continuous
I am paring
you are paring
he/she/it is paring
we are paring
you are paring
they are paring

Present Perfect
I have pared
you have pared
he/she/it has pared
we have pared
you have pared
they have pared

Past Continuous
I was paring
you were paring
he/she/it was paring
we were paring
you were paring
they were paring

Past Perfect
I had pared
you had pared
he/she/it had pared
we had pared
you had pared
they had pared

Future
I will pare
you will pare
he/she/it will pare
we will pare
you will pare
they will pare

Future Perfect
I will have pared
you will have pared
he/she/it will have pared
we will have pared
you will have pared
they will have pared

Future Continuous
I will be paring
you will be paring
he/she/it will be paring
we will be paring
you will be paring
they will be paring

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been paring
you have been paring
he/she/it has been paring
we have been paring
you have been paring
they have been paring

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been paring
you will have been paring
he/she/it will have been paring
we will have been paring
you will have been paring
they will have been paring

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been paring
you had been paring
he/she/it had been paring
we had been paring
you had been paring
they had been paring

Conditional
I would pare
you would pare
he/she/it would pare
we would pare
you would pare
they would pare

Past Conditional
I would have pared
you would have pared
he/she/it would have pared
we would have pared
you would have pared
they would have pared

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pare

To peel the skin from a food.

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Verb	1.	pare - decrease gradually or bit by bit pare down minify, decrease, lessen - make smaller; "He decreased his staff"
	2.	pare - cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood" whittle cut - separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"
	3.	pare - strip the skin off; "pare apples" peel, skin peel off - peel off the outer layer of something strip - remove the surface from; "strip wood" flay - strip the skin off
	4.	pare - remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber" trim dress - cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width cut - separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope"

pare

verb

1. peel, cut, skin, trim, clip, shave Pare the rind thinly from the lemon.

2. cut back, cut, reduce, crop, decrease, dock, prune, shear, lop, retrench Local authorities must pare down their budgets.

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pare

verb

1. To remove the skin of:

decorticate, peel, scale, skin, strip.

2. To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising:

chop, clip, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, lop, lower, prune, shear, slash, trim, truncate.

Translations

rogner

pelare ridurre sbucciare

pare

[pɛəʳ] VT [+ nails] → cortar; [+ fruit etc] → pelar

pare down VT + ADV → reducir
to pare sth down to the minimum → reducir algo al mínimo

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pare

[ˈpɛə^r] vt

[+ fruit] → peler

(= trim) to pare one's nails → se couper les ongles

(= reduce) [+ costs] → alléger

pare down

vt sep (= reduce) [+ costs, numbers] → alléger

pare off

vt sep [+ slice] → découper; [+ rind, skin] → découperpared-down [ˌpɛə^rdˈdaʊn] adj

(= not elaborate) [style] → dépouillé(e) m/f
Her style is pared-down and simple → Son style est simple et dépouillé.

[organization] → allégé(e)

pare

nails → schneiden; fruit, stick → schälen; she pared the skin off the apple → sie schälte den Apfel

(fig) spending, budget → zurückschneiden; pared to the bone → auf das Allernotwendigste zurückgeschnitten

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pare

[pɛəʳ] vt (nails) → tagliarsi; (fruit) → sbucciare, pelare

pare down vt + adv (costs) → ridurre, limitare

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I snuggled close among the wallow of snorers, to conceal as nearly as possible that I was naked of irons; and I kept a sharp lookout and pre- pared to spring for my man the moment he should bend over me.

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The master's wife would go on a visit to the country in a few days, and there would be nothing to interfere with the plan; the master always pre- pared himself for great occasions by getting pretty well fuddled, and the sign-painter's boy said that when the dominie had reached the proper condition on Examina- tion Evening he would "manage the thing" while he napped in his chair; then he would have him awakened at the right time and hurried away to school.

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If with the latter, what are you pre- pared to do and dare in their behalf?

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And scattered about it, some in their over- turned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling- machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Martians--DEAD!--slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unpre- pared; slain as the red weed was being slain; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.

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Seymour Delafield," said Charlotte, raising her mild eyes to the face of her mother, and smiling, as she delicately pared her apple, with a simple ingenuousness that banished uneasiness from the breast of her parent in an instant.

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He kept his hand on the knob as though pre- pared to resist anyone else coming in.

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He'll undertake to torture any number of cats, if their teeth be drawn and their claws pared. You'll be able to tell his uncle fine tales of his KINDNESS, when you get home again, I assure you.'

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Los tumores en la pared toracica son relativamente infrecuentes en perros y usualmente se derivan de hueso o componentes cartilaginosos de la pared costal (Halfacree et al.

Cierre de un gran defecto de la pared toracica y abdominal usando omento y malla de polipropileno en un canino/Closure of a large thoracic and abdominal wall defect using omentum and a polypropylene mesh in a dog

In August, Uday Kotak, the founder and promoter of Kotak Mahindra Bank, had pared down his stake in the bank to 19.70 percent from about 30 percent after the central bank demanded he did so.

Kotak Bank to sue central bank

This is in contrast with Europe, where major insurers have pared down their investments and involvement in the coal industry.