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paring down

paring down is the present participle and gerund of pare down.

Meaning of pare down

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To reduce by paring or a similar gradual process.
    • As companies keep paring down their delivery times – from two days to a day to two hours to an hour – longer stretches of the last mile will have to run through urban territory.2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian

Questions about paring down

What is paring down the present participle and gerund of?
Paring down is the present participle and gerund of pare down.

Words near paring down in the dictionary

  1. parinaric acids
  2. Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome
  3. Parinaud's syndrome
  4. Parincea
  5. paring
  6. paring down
  7. paring knife
  8. paring knives
  9. paring to the bone
  10. Paringi
  11. parings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paring down (page history and authors); pare down (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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