Pare vs Pared - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between pare and pared

is that pare is to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife while pared is past tense of pare.

(par)

to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife

We pared the paired pears.

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 peel * to skin

* cheeseparing * parer * paring * paring knife * pare away * pare down * pare off

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(head)

(pare)

Victor pared some apples in preparation to make a tart.

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