Synonyms for pare
verb
To peel
skin, scalp, strip, flay; see cut 1, shave 1, skin.
To trim
prune, clip, crop, trim off; see carve 1, cut 1, trim 1.
See pare in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To remove the skin of:
decorticate, peel, scale1, skin, strip1. See put onTo decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising:
chop1, clip1, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, lop1, lower2, prune, shear, slash, trim, truncate. See increase
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