Meaning & use
pared
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trimmed away the outer layer of something, or reduced something to a smaller, simpler, or more essential form.
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She pared the potatoes before boiling them.
The company pared its expenses down to the bare essentials.
A note on using this word
'Pared' is easily confused with 'paired' (matched in twos) despite sounding identical; 'pare' always relates to cutting or reducing, as in the common phrase 'pare down.'
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