[
US
/ˈpɛɹ/
]
[ UK /pˈeə/ ]
[ UK /pˈeə/ ]
VERB
- decrease gradually or bit by bit
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remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
pare one's fingernails
trim lumber
trim the photograph -
strip the skin off
pare apples -
cut small bits or pare shavings from
whittle a piece of wood
How To Use pare In A Sentence
- We carried spare water for the rad, a hand pump just in case the Dunlop pressure dropped, and maybe even a canister of petrol.
- Fertilization therefore results in an egg carrying a nucleus with contributions from both parents, and it was concluded that the cell nucleus must contain the physical basis of heredity.
- I learned how to negotiate fights between adolescent girls without making it seem like parental interference.
- The main square is called “Rynek” (which basically means “central market place”), and in the middle there are two buildings: “Ratusz” or City Hall (compare with German “Rathaus”) and “Sukiennice”, a long one-level building not unlike a bazaar, filled with stores. Matthew Yglesias » Krakow
- One was apparently faulty and the other did not have a battery.
- Just before serving, prepare a few small cheese ravioli and place them in each bowl before you add the soup.
- His parents made a lot of sacrifices to make sure he got a good education.
- You submit to subterfuge, you replace your ordinary parents by a little less ordinary, but still quite ordinary folks, Katrien and the commissaris. Just a Corpse at Twilight
- Parents have to be a lot more careful about what their children are allowed to watch on the TV.
- Our interneuronal connections in our brain, for example, process information at chemical signaling speeds of a few hundred feet per second, compared to a billion feet per second for electronics - electronics is a million times faster.