pare
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- v decrease gradually or bit by bit
- v cut small bits or pare shavings from
- v strip the skin off
pare apples - v remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
pare one's fingernails
- Crossing Paris, the first and longest tale, is by Marcel Ayme, a deft ironist who likes to pare the French mind and character like an apple.
- Whatever the reason, there are several grassroots movements afoot that have average Joes trying to pare down their possessions and do more living with less stuff.
- He has also has pushed hard to dispatch more armor and remote-controlled drones to Afghanistan and Iraq even if it means the services have to pare back their spending on gold .