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Pare   /pɛr/   Listen
verb
Pare  v. t.  (past & past part. pared; pres. part. paring)  
1.
To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.
2.
To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, rind, or outside part, from anything; followed by off or away; as, to pare off the rind of fruit; to pare away redundancies.
3.
Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen. "The king began to pare a little the privilege of clergy."





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"Pare" Quotes from Famous Books



... The Pare de la Chaise had his chariot with his arms on it, and his family livery; and as the income from his benefices remained to him, joined to his office of confessor, he continued to have every day a numerous court of young abbes, priests well on in ...
— The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Complete • Madame La Marquise De Montespan
... and those who loved themselves: the best of them were the worst: for they were all the more certain to snuff out the artist with their immoderate affection, which made them in all good faith try to domesticate genius, turn it to their own uses, drag it down, prune it, pare it down, scent it, until they had brought it into line with their sensibility, their petty vanity, their mediocrity, and the mediocrity of the world they ...
— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland
... popular way of stopping hemorrhage by plunging the stump into burning oil which continued even in Europe till Ambrose Pare taught men ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... per Dio! Che ti pare! niente meno si spalanca l'inferno. Alla larga! Sor Fattorone: Pronti denari, Fan ...
— The Eureka Stockade • Carboni Raffaello
... long story, and he nodded from time to time understandingly. Genteel poverty, a life of scrimp and pare—the cage. Romance—a flash of it—and she would return to the old life quite satisfied. Peace, a stormy interlude; then peace again indefinitely. It came to him that he wanted the respect of this young woman for always. But the malice that ...
— The Pagan Madonna • Harold MacGrath


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