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pares to the bone

pares to the bone is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pare to the bone.

Meaning of pare to the bone

Verb

pare to the bone (third-person singular simple present pares to the bone, present participle paring to the bone, simple past and past participle pared to the bone)

  1. (transitive) To pare down to an extreme degree.
    • Distilling costs were already pared to the bone, and the serious credit crisis in Bordeaux in 1789 first put at risk those houses which were already short of resources.2002, L. M. Cullen, The Brandy Trade Under the Ancien Régime, page 246

Questions about pares to the bone

What is pares to the bone the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pares to the bone is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pare to the bone.

Words near pares to the bone in the dictionary

  1. parergons
  2. parergy
  3. parers
  4. pares
  5. pares down
  6. pares to the bone
  7. pareses
  8. Paresi
  9. paresis
  10. Paressi
  11. parestheses

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