Pare vs Paren - What's the difference?
pare | paren |
to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife
to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off
to trim the hoof of a horse
As a verb pare
is to seem, to look, to appear.As a noun paren is
(informal) a parenthesis (bracket used to enclose parenthetical material in text).pare
English
Verb
(par)- We pared the paired pears.
- Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.
