Pare
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pare¹
- /pɛə/ UK
- /pɛɹ/ US
- /peː/ Australia
- /ˈpeə/ New Zealand
- /ˈpiə/
- /ˈpeɹ/ Scotland
- /ˈpɜː(ɹ)/
Sounds like pair, pear, pere, peer, pier (both cheer–chair merger), per, purr (both fair–fur merger) · Rhymes with -ɛə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English paren, from Old French parer (“to arrange, prepare, trim”), from Latin parō (“to prepare, arrange; to provide, furnish; to resolve, purpose”) (related to pariō (“to bear, to give birth to; to spawn, produce, beget; to procure, acquire”)), from a Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forward, bring forth”).
verb pares · paring · pared
- To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife. Victor pared some apples in preparation to make a tart.
- To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off. Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.
- To trim the hoof of a horse.
- To sharpen a pencil.
Pare²
proper noun
- A Bantu language spoken in Tanzania.
