pare
verb (used with object)
to cut off the outer coating, layer, or part of.
pared
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past participleof pare.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof pare.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
pareverb (used with object)to cut off the outer coating, layer, or part of.
Example Sentences
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Shares of the company pared early gains to trade about 1% higher after the results.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
This latest decline is down not just to hot weather, which has been slightly mitigated by recent rainfall, but also a reduction in cultivated areas -- pared back 1.9 percent in the past year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
Both main contracts fell Monday, extending Friday's drop, though the losses were pared by news that Yemen had started a new military operation to retake all territory held by the Houthis.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
The sentence is now pared down to a simpler but rhythmically effective line mimicking the weight that was on Darwin: “With a heavy heart he buried himself in barnacles.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
It stripped his thoughts of the words that described them and left them pared and naked.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
