pare. Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.

Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.

pare

VERB:	1. To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising: chop¹, clip¹, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, lop¹, lower², prune, shear, slash, trim, truncate. See INCREASE. 2. To remove the skin of: decorticate, peel, scale¹, skin, strip¹. See PUT ON.


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