Pare

Definitions: Pare

Pare

Verb

1. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.

2. Cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood".

3. Strip the skin off ("pare apples").

4. Remove the edges from: "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "pare" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Note: Pare \Pare\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Pared; present participle verb or noun Paring.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Pare

Contraction

Abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.

Divestment

Verb: divest; uncover; (cover; ); denude, bare, strip; disfurnish; undress, disrobe; (dress, enrobe; ); uncoif; dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt, mew; cast the skin.

Layer

Verb: slice, shave, pare, peel; delaminate; plate, coat, veneer; cover.

Nonaddition Subtraction

Garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate; cut off, cut away, cut out; abscind, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape, file; geld, castrate; eliminate.

Shortness

Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.

Crosswords: Pare

Albanian (coin), Basque (brace, pair), Catalan (father), Hawaiian (coin), Portuguese (stop), Romanian (it seems), Serbo-Croatian (dibs, money, moneys, shekels), Spanish (halt, stop), Wolof (ready).

Thanasi pare t'oplo sou (1972)

Pare kosme (1967)

Il Marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare (1966)

Pare to dakry mou (1965)

Zle pare (1956)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Liola E VI Pare (reference)

• Pare Lorentz and the Documentary Film (reference)

• Seven Spiritual Laws of Success for Pare (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Orquesta Aragon La Vol I, Cha Cha Chas Que Hicieron Epoca, El Bodeguero - Pare Cochero - El Maletero (reference)

• Que El Ritmo No Pare (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

Sales presentations must focus on the bottom line � appeal to the consumer translating into sales for the tour operator � and be supported by hard data. Tour operators, to remain competitive, pare their margins closely, and make every square inch of catalog space work for them. Before they will agree to feature a new destination or product in their catalogs, they must be assured that doing so will produce sufficient revenue to justify inclusion. (references)

Economic History

Republic of Congo

The World Bank and other international financial institutions pressured Congo to institute sweeping civil service reforms in order to reduce the size of the state bureaucracy and pare back a civil service payroll that amounted to more than 20% of GDP in 1993. The effort to cut back began in 1994 with a 50% devaluation that cut the payroll in half in dollar terms and by a mid-year reduction of nearly 8,000 in civil service employment. (references)

India

The RBI has barred foreign banks from including their external commercial lending to Indian companies as part of their tier 1 capital, forcing small foreign banks to infuse fresh capital to maintain the capital adequacy ratio or pare their asset base. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "pare": pare away ♦ pare down ♦ pare off ♦ pare one's nails to the quick ♦ pare smb.'s claws. Additional references.

Albanian

pakësoj (abate, abridge, curtail, cut down, deflate, degrade, diminish, lessen, lower, narrow, razee, reduce, retrench, slacken, understate, vitiate), shkurtoj (abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, buck, clip, compress, condense, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, detruncate, dock, epitomize, poll, prune, razee, retrench, shorten, truncate, undercut, whittle down), qëroj (blanch, clean, clear, cut out, decorticate, dress, finger, Hull, mulct, Peel, pick, pick off, pinch, poach, rind, scale, shell, waste, whip, zap), krasis (prune, shear). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قلم (clip, cut, cut back, liner, manicure, pen, prune, streak, stria, stripe, trim), ‏قشر (bark, exfoliate, hull, husk, peel, rind, scale, scrape, shave, shell, shuck, skin, strip), ‏حلج (scutch), ‏خفض تدريجيا, ‏شذب (cut, cut back, lop, manicure, prune, refine, tip, trim, truncate), ‏برى (abrade, whittle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

режа (cut, hack, lop, scissor, slash, slice, snip, stab), кастря (carpet, crop, knife, lop, pare off, prune, rap, trash), орязвам (clip, cut off, trim), обелвам (bark, excoriate, excorticate, peel, pill, rind), беля (decorticate, exfoliate, mischief, nuisance, packet, peel, pill, rind, shell, shuck, skin, trouble), подрязвам (clip, cut short, dock, lop, nip, scissor, trim, undercut). (various references)

Chinese 

削去 (Pared, Paring), 剝掉 . (various references)

Czech

ostříhat (shear), oloupat (decorticate, exfoliate, Peel, rind, skin, strip), okrájet (shave), ořezat (sharpen, shave). (various references)

Farsi 

پوست کندن (Bark, Hide, Hull, Peel, Pelt, Rind, Ross, Skin), چیدن (Arrange, Clip, Crop, Cut, Lop, Mow, Pick, Pickup, Pluck, Pull, Set, Snip, Trim), کاستن (Abate, Decline, Decrease, Detract, Discount, Drawoff, Lessen, Lighten, Rebate, Shorten, Soften, Subtract), قسمت های زاءدچیزی راچیدن , تراشیدن (Carve, Erase, Excoriate, Expunge, Face, Grain, Grave, Rase, Raze, Scrape, Shave, Trim, Whittle), سرشاخه چیدن . (various references)

Finnish

leikata (carve, clip, crop, cut, cut chiplessly, cut out, cut without stock removal, intersect, lance, operate, prunce, shear, slice, trim), kuoria (bark, decorticate, hull, husk, peel, shell, skim, to bark, to debark, to decorticate, to descale, to disbark, to flaw, to flay, to rind, to ross, to strip). (various references)

French

peler, rogner, réduire, couper, éplucher. (various references)

German

schälen (fraying, Hull, husk, paring, Peel, peeling, planing, Shear-Speed, shell, shuck, skin, skiving, the removal of a defined thickness of bituminous materials using a cutting blade, to bark, to debark, to decorticate, to disbark, to flaw, to flay, to pare, to peel, to rind, to ross, to strip). (various references)

Greek 

ξεφλουδίζω (chip off, flake, husk, peel, pod, shell, shuck, skin, to bark, to decorticate), περικόπτω (abridge, clip, crop, curtail, cut back, cut back on, dock, lop, razee, retrench, to trim, trim). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקלוף (shell), לקלף תפוחי א�"מ�", לקלף (husk, shell, skin), לקרצף (curry, rasp, scrape, wisp), לעשות צפור� ים, ל�'זוז (clip, set aside, trim). (various references)

Hungarian

vág körmöt, nyír körmöt. (various references)

Indonesian

mengupas (hull, peel). (various references)

Italian

pelare (fleece, pluck, rip off, shear, skin, unhair), tagliarsi (cut), sbucciare (graze, peel, shell, skin). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

削 (crossout, curtail, plane, reduce, scrape off, sharpen, shave, whittle). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さく (a harvest, a work, cord, crossout, curtail, fence, last, paling, plan, plane, policy, reduce, rope, scrape off, sharpen, shave, to alienate, to avoid, to bloom, to cede, to cleave, to cut up, to divide, to separate, to sever, to spare, to split, to tear, whittle, yesterday). (various references)

Manx

scraaghey (clod, scraw, squawk, squeal). (various references)

Pig Latin

arepay

Portuguese

podar (clip, detruncate, disbud, head, lop, prune, shear, trim), perdãos, desbastar (build, build from wood, chip, detruncate, dress type, hew, hew down, lop, prune, reducing, select, single, Spall, thin out, trim, Whittle), cotar (quote), aparar (caress, clip, detruncate, fettle, fondle, lop, mow, nib, paregoric, prune, skive, spoil, trim, ward off, Whittle). (various references)

Romanian

tunde (clip, crop, cut, edge, lop, shear, trim), tãia partea exterioarã, tãia coaja, tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), scoate coaja (peel off), reduce treptat (phase out), rade (contuse, efface, erase, grate, obliterate, rasp, raze, scrape, shave), micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, cut, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), îndepãrta partea exterioarã. (various references)

Russian 

урезывать (ax, axe, curtail, cut, pare away, skimp). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

seći (chip, chop, clip, cut, hew), oljuštiti (descale, hull, peel off, shell), odseći (amputate, chop, chop off, cut away, detruncate, exscind), ljuštiti (husk, peel, shell, shuck, spelt). (various references)

Spanish

mondar (beat, clean, Peel, prune), cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, to cut, to hit, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle). (various references)

Swedish

skala (dial, flay, gradation, graduated scale, husk, Peel, scale, shell, shuck, skin), klippa (cliff, clip, cut, cut chiplessly, cut without stock removal, edit, mow, outcrop, outcropp, rock, rock (of stone), scaur, scissor, shear, trim). (various references)

Turkish

yontmak (chip, chisel, cut, fair, fine away, fine down, hack, hew, lick into shape, pare off, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, skive, Whittle), soymak (bare, bark, burglarize, burgle, clean out, decorticate, denude, deplume, despoil, disrobe, divest, flay, fleece, heist, hold up, housebreak, knock off, Peel, pluck, plunder, pull off, rifle, rip off, Rob, roll, sack, shave, shear, skin, stick up, strip, unclothe, undress, unrobe), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), kabuğunu soymak (bark, decorticate, Hull, husk, Peel, peel off, pod, remove the skin, shell, shuck, skin, skin out), kısmak (abridge, attenuate, ax, axe, check, choke, choke back, choke off, curtail, cut back, cut down on, depress, diminish, draw in, economize, narrow, pare down, pinch, put down, qualify, reduce, retrench, scrimp, skimp, soften, stint, throttle, throttle down, tighten, turn down), kırpmak (bat, blink, clip, crop, cut, retrench, shave, shear, wink), budamak (amputate, chip, chop off, cut, cut back, lop, nip, nip off, poll, Pollard, prune, prune away, prune off, trim, truncate). (various references)

Ukranian 

урізувати (ax, axe, castrate, curtail, lop away, lop off, scant, scrimp, shorten, truncate), обстругувати, обчищати, зрізувати дерен, підрізати (barb, clip, prune, tip, trim). (various references)

Welsh

pilio (peel). (various references)

parare, subseco. (various references)

parer, retaillier. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "pare": parecism, parecisms, pared, paregoric, paregorics, pareira, pareiras, parenchyma, parenchymal, parenchymas, parenchymata, parenchymatous, parent, parentage, parentages, parental, parentally, parented, parenteral, parenterally, parentheses, parenthesis, parenthesize, parenthesized, parenthesizes, parenthesizing, parenthetic, parenthetical, parenthetically, parenthood, parenthoods, parenting, parentings, parentless, parents, pareo, pareos, parer, parerga, parergon, parers, pares, pareses, paresis, paresthesia, paresthesias, paresthetic, paretic, paretics, pareu, pareus, pareve. (additional references)

Words ending with "pare": compare, intercompare, prepare, spare. (additional references)

Words containing "pare": aparejo, aparejos, apparel, appareled, appareling, apparelled, apparelling, apparels, apparent, apparently, apparentness, apparentnesses, biparental, biparentally, chaparejos, compared, comparer, comparers, compares, coparent, coparents, godparent, godparents, grandparent, grandparental, grandparenthood, grandparenthoods, grandparents, houseparent, houseparents, inapparent, inapparently, intercompared, intercompares, nonpareil, nonpareils, prepared, preparedly, preparedness, preparednesses, preparer, preparers, prepares, preprepared, pseudoparenchyma, pseudoparenchymas, pseudoparenchymata, pseudoparenchymatous, rapparee, rapparees, semitransparent, spareable, spared, sparely, spareness, sparenesses, sparer, sparerib, spareribs, sparers, spares, sparest, stepparent, stepparenting, stepparentings, stepparents, transparence, transparences, transparencies, transparency, transparent, transparentize, transparentized, transparentizes, transparentizing, transparently, transparentness, transparentnesses, unapparent, underprepared, uniparental, uniparentally, unparented, unprepared, unpreparedness, unpreparednesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Pare" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apara, appre, apre, aprec, aprel, apri, aprie, aprp, apure, epare, opare, paar, pabe, pabr, pade, Padee, paire, pairi, paje, pame, paoe, paral, parce, pard, Pardee, pareb, Pareja, Parejo, Parek, Parel, paren, pareo, parer, paret, pareu, parg, parge, paric, pario, parir, parke, parl, parlee, parleg, parlev, parlez, Parmet, parn, parne, paro, parp, parq, parqe, parra, Parral, parre, parrel, Parri, parte, partem, paru, parue, parve, Parvez, Parwez, pary, parye, patra, patrem, paxe, paze, Pearey, pearo, Penre, perde, Perea, Pereg, perer, perge, Perne, pero, Perre, perree, Perren, perve, Pfarrer, Phaer, Phaire, phar, Phara, pharoe, pharuk, Phaure, Piara, pire, piri, Piro, pitre, Pivra, plaret, pnre, poare, Poari, porex, porre, Ppru, pra, prael, Praep, Prage, Prai, prake, prao, prau, prave, pyar. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aper, pear, rape, reap.

-1 letter: ape, are, ear, era, par, pea, per, rap, rep.

-2 letters: ae, ar, er, pa, pe, re.

+1 letter: apers, apery, apres, apter, arpen, asper, caper, crape, drape, gaper, grape, japer, opera, pacer, padre, pager, paler, paper, parae, pared, pareo, parer, pares, pareu, parge, parle, parse, parve, pater, paver, pawer, payer, pearl, pears, peart, perea, prase, prate, presa, raped, raper, rapes, raphe, reaps, recap, remap, repay, spare, spear, taper.

+2 letters: ampere, ampler, apercu, appear, arpens, arpent, aspers, aspire, bewrap, camper, capers, capper, carped, carpel, carper, carpet, craped, crapes, damper, dapper, depart, diaper, draped, draper, drapes, drapey, earlap, enrapt, entrap, enwrap, eparch, escarp, frappe, gapers, gasper, gawper, grapes, grapey, hamper, harped, harper, japers, japery, jasper, lapper, lapser, leaper, mapper, napery, napper, operas, pacers, packer, padder, padres, pagers, paired, palier, palmer, palter, pamper, pander, panier, panzer, papers, papery, parade, parcel, pardee, pardie, parent, pareos, parers, pareus, pareve, parged, parges, parget, paries, parked, parker, parled, parles, parley, parole, parred, parrel, parsec, parsed, parser, parses, parted, parure, passer, paster, paters, patter, patzer, pauper, pauser, pavers, pawers, pawner, payers, pearls, pearly, pedlar, pereia, petard, phrase, pirate, placer, planer, plater, player, pleura, praise, prance, prases, prated, prater, prates, praxes, prayed, prayer, preach, preact, preamp, prearm, prefab, prelaw, preman, prepay, pretax, prewar, protea, ramped, rapers, raphae, raphes, rapier, rapine, rapped, rappee, rappel, rappen, rapper, rasped, rasper, reaped, reaper, recaps, redcap, remaps, repack, repaid, repair, repand, repark, repass, repast, repave, repays, repeal, repeat, replan, replay, retape, revamp, rewrap, rhaphe, sapper, sarape, scrape, secpar, serape, seraph, shaper, sherpa, soaper, spacer, spader, spared, sparer, spares, sparge, sparse, spears, spirea, spread, tamper, tapers, tapper, tephra, teraph, threap, trapes, trepan, upbear, uprate, uprear, uptear, vamper, warped, warper, yapper, yauper, yawper, zapper.

+3 letters: adapter, adepter, adopter, amperes, aparejo, apercus, aperies, apparel, appears, applier, apposer, apprise, apprize, approve, aproned, apteral, apteria, apteryx, apyrase, arpents, aruspex, asperse, aspired, aspirer, aspires, barkeep, bedrape, bewraps, bewrapt, breakup, caliper, campers, campier, capered, caperer, cappers, caprice, caprine, capture, carpale, carpels, carpers, carpets, champer, chapter, cheaper, clamper, clapper, clasper, compare, cramped, crapped, crapper, crappie, dampers, departs, deprave, despair, diapers, diptera, drapers, drapery, eardrop, earflap, earlaps, earplug, empaler, emporia, entraps, enwraps, eparchs, eparchy, ephedra, ephoral, epicarp, epigram, escaper, escarps, esparto, exocarp, felspar, firepan, flapper, flareup, forepaw, frapped, frappes, gappier, garpike, gaspers, gawpers, grapery, graphed, grapier, grapnel, grapple, grasped, grasper, graupel, hampers, hanaper, happier, harelip, harpers, harpies, heparin, impaler, impearl, imperia, impresa, jaspers, jaspery, jeopard, knapper, lampers, lamprey, lappers, lapsers, leapers, lempira, leopard, manrope, mappers, meropia, nappers, nappier, opaquer, operand, operant, operate, overapt, overlap, overpay, packers, padders, paddler, padrone, painter, palaver, palfrey, pallier, palmers, palmier, palters, pampero, pampers, panders, pandore, paniers, pannier, panther, panzers, papered, paperer, pappier, parable, paraded, parader, parades, parapet, parcels, parched, parches, pardine, pardner, pareira, parents, parerga, pareses, paresis, paretic, pargets, parises, parkers, parleys, paroled, parolee, paroles, parquet, parrels, parried, parries, parsecs, parsers, parsley, partake, partied, partier, parties, partite, partlet, partner, partyer, parures, parvenu, parvise, passers, pastern, pasters, pastier, pasture, patcher, pattern, patters, patzers, paupers, pausers, paviser, pawkier, pawners, peacher, peakier, pearled, pearler, pearter, peartly, peatier, peccary, pedlars, pedlary, peerage, peloria, peracid, percale, pergola, perhaps, periapt, peridia, perilla, perinea, peroral, persalt, persona, pertain, perusal, pervade, pessary, petards, petrale, peytral, phorate, phrased, phrases, piaffer, piaster, piastre, picrate, pirated, pirates, placers, plaguer, plainer, plaiter, planers, planner, planter, plasher, plaster, platers, platier, platter, players, pleader, pleaser, pleater, plectra, plenary, pleurae, pleural, pleuras, poacher, portage, praetor, prairie, praised, praiser, praises, praline, pranced, prancer, prances, pranged, pranked, praters, prattle, prawned, prawner, prayers, preachy, preacts, preaged, preamps, preanal, prearms, preaver, prebake, precast, precava, predate, predawn, predial, prefabs, preface, prefade, pregame, preheat, prelacy, prelate, premade, premeal, prename, prepack, prepaid, prepare, prepays, preplan, prerace, presage, presale, presoak, pretape, prevail, prewarm, prewarn, prewash, prewrap, primage, primate, private, probate, profane, prolate, pronate, propane, prorate, protean, proteas, psalter, pteryla, puberal, pugaree, pyrexia, ralphed, rampage, rampike, rampole, ranpike, raphide, rapider, rapiers, rapines, rappees, rappels, rappers, rapture, raspers, raspier, readapt, readopt, reapers, reaping, reapply, reclasp, redcaps, relapse, repacks, repaint, repairs, repanel, repaper, reparks, repasts, repatch, repaved, repaves, repeals, repeats, replace, replans, replant, replate, replays, replead, replica, reposal, reptant, reshape, respace, respade, respeak, respray, restamp, retaped, retapes, revamps, rewraps, rewrapt, rhaphae, rhaphes, ropable, ropeway, sampler, sappers, sappier, saprobe, sarapes, scalper, scamper, scarped, scarper, scauper, scraped, scraper, scrapes, scrapie, seaport, secpars, serapes, seraphs, shapers, sharped, sharpen, sharper, sharpie, sherpas, slapper, snapper, soapers, soapier, spacers, spacier, spaders, spaller, spammer, spanker, spanner, sparely, sparers, sparest, sparged, sparger, sparges, sparked, sparker, sparkle, sparred, sparser, spatter, spawner, speaker, speared, spearer, spectra, spheral, spiraea, spireas, sprayed, sprayer, spreads, stamper, stapler, swamper, swapper, tampers, tapered, taperer, tappers, tapster, tempera, templar, tempura, tephras, therapy, threaps, traipse, tramped, tramper, trample, trapeze, trapped, trapper, trepang, trepans, typebar, undrape, upbears, updater, upgrade, upraise, uprated, uprates, upreach, uprears, upstare, uptears, vampers, vampire, vapored, vaporer, warpage, warpers, waspier, whapper, wiretap, wrapped, wrapper, yappers, yaupers, yawpers, zappers, zappier.

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