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Definition of Pare down
1. Verb. Decrease gradually or bit by bit.
Definition of Pare down
1. Verb. (idiomatic transitive) To reduce by paring or a similar gradual process. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pare Down
Literary usage of Pare down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contemporary French Novelists: And Other Tales from India by William Henry Denham Rouse, William Crooke, William Heath Robinson, René Doumic, Mary D. Frost (1922)
"The Mouse went to the King, and said, " O King, I can't get into my hole, and
the Carpenter will not pare down my ribs ; will you make him do it ? ..."
2. Journal of Cutaneous and Venereal Diseases (1886)
"... on this side of the forefinger in the portrait, and it has been the custom of
the patient to pare down these accumulations of epidermis with a razor. ..."
3. The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and by Andrew Kippis, William Godwin, George Robinson (1826)
"... it needed no stretch of prophetic imagination to predict that they would soon
renounce the errors of their ways, follow our example, and pare down the ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1866)
"Beware of another evil, that of trying to throw aside or to pare down what seems
most faithful and warm in the devotions of foreign lands. ..."
5. The Illustrated Horse Doctor: Being an Accurate and Detailed Account of the by Edward Mayhew (1880)
"The bleeding having ceased, pare down the outward edges of the separation, ...
This effect being accomplished, pare down or scoop off the edges—using the ..."
6. Transactions of the Society, Instituted at London, for the Encouragement of by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1895)
"... out of which the gum oozes, to the bottom; cut away the blotches, and pare
down the canker; then anoint all the wounds with the medication, ..."
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