pare
/pɛə/US/pɛɹ/
pare verb: to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
Verb
pare (third-person singular simple present pares, present participle paring, simple past and past participle pared)
- To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
- Victor pared some apples in preparation to make a tart.
- To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.
- Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.
- Also referring to the deeds of certain Border Ruffians, he said, rapidly paring away his speech, like an experienced soldier, keeping a reserve of force and meaning, “They had a perfect right to be hung.”1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown
- To trim the hoof of a horse.
- To sharpen a pencil.
Proper noun capitalized: Pare
Pare
pare meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
pare in Tamil
- படிப்படியாக குறை, குறைவாக்கு
pare in Urdu
- چھلکا اتارنا, فالتو تہہ اتارنا
pare in Malayalam
- തൊലികളയുക, ചീവുക, കുറെശ്ലെയായി കുറയ്ക്കുക, ചെത്തുക
pare in Kannada
- ಹೊಳಚು, ಹೆರೆ, ಸುಲಿ, ಕೆತ್ತು
Examples of pare in a sentence
- If it is made of babbitt the metal will pare off quite easily.
- Pares from their feet the cankery rot.
- The right thing to do faced with chronic annual trillion-dollar budget deficits and globally destabilizing sovereign debts is to pare the politocratic foreign-policy mission.
Forms of pare
| third-person singular present | pares |
|---|---|
| present participle | paring |
| past participle | pared |
| past | pared |
Origin of pare
From Middle English paren, from Old French parer (“to arrange, prepare, trim”), from Latin parō (“to prepare, arrange; to provide, furnish; to resolve, purpose”) (related to pariō (“to bear, to give birth to; to spawn, produce, beget; to procure, acquire”)), from a Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forward, bring forth”).
Words formed from pare
- cheesepare
- cheeseparing
- pare away
- pare down
- pare off
- parer
- pare to the bone
- paring
- paring knife
- unpared
Phrases with pare
Words that rhyme with pare
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- declare
- hair
- Sinclair
- where
- ayr
- care
- layer
- mayor
- parterre
- fare
- glare
- lair
- pear
- prayer
- snare
- compare
- dare
- rare
- share
- swear
- ware
- wear and tear
- Ayer
- blare
- flair
- forbear
- Kerr
- laissez faire
- mousquetaire
- prepare
- repair
- stare
- unfair
- yare
- -ware
- abear
- aflare
- despair
- glair
- heir
- impair
- Pierre
- reair
- scare
- tare
- trillionaire
- Voltaire
- aware
Questions about pare
- What does pare mean?
- Pare means to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
- What is pare in Tamil?
- Pare in Tamil is படிப்படியாக குறை, குறைவாக்கு. See Pare meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is pare?
- Pare can be a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce pare?
- Pare is pronounced /pɛə/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of pare?
- The past tense of pare is pared.
Words near pare in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pare (page history and authors); Pare (page history and authors); pare (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pare (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pare (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pare (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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