Crossword-Solution: PARE 4 letters, 294 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Pare v. t. To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or
extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.
Pare v. t. To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin,
ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away; as;
to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies.
Pare v. t. Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.

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Word Anagrams
PARE anagram APER, APRE, ARPE, EARP, PAER, PEAR, PERA, PRAE, RAPE, REAP

We have 294 clues for the answer “PARE”

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Trim down gradually 1 answer
"Father of French Surgery" 1 answer
Apple pie prep step 1 answer
Cut (down), as expenses 1 answer
Cut away the outer layer of 1 answer
Cut back on expenses, e.g. 1 answer
Cut back on, as expenses 1 answer
Cut back or cut off 1 answer
Cut back, with "down" 1 answer
Cut fruit 1 answer
Cut off in layers 1 answer
Cut the outer layer of 1 answer
Cut the outer layer off 1 answer
Cut the peel from 1 answer
Cut the peel off 1 answer
Cut the rind from 1 answer
Cut the rind off 1 answer
Cut the skin from 1 answer
Cut with a small knife 1 answer
Cut, as costs 1 answer
Cut, as expenses 1 answer
Decrease gradually (with "down") 1 answer
Denude an apple 1 answer
Denude potatoes 1 answer
Do K.P. 1 answer
Do a kitchen-police job 1 answer
Do kitchen work 1 answer
Do some potato prep 1 answer
Documentary filmmaker Lorentz 1 answer
Dramatically reduce 1 answer
Famous French surgeon (1517–90). 1 answer
Father of French surgery (1517–1590). 1 answer
Father of modern surgery 1 answer
Fix apples 1 answer
Fix apples for a pie 1 answer
Fix potatoes 1 answer
Free of skin 1 answer
Get ready for a tart 1 answer
Get the carrots ready 1 answer
Gradually reduce (with "down") 1 answer
Jessica of "mad men" 1 answer
Lessen, as expenses 1 answer
Make a twist from 1 answer
Make cutbacks in 1 answer
Make less edgy? 1 answer
Make reductions to 1 answer
More than just scratch the surface of 1 answer
Opposite of embiggen 1 answer
Peel ... or, phonetically, a fruit you might do this to 1 answer
Peel off, as a peel 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PARE (5)

Cultivate a superiority to reason, and see how you pare the claws of all the sensible people when they try to scratch you for your own good! Finding that I made no remark, and that my mistress made no remark, Sergeant Cuff proceeded.
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins 1994
XLII But that enchantress kind, who with more care Than for himself he watched, still kept the knight, Designed to drag him, by rough road and bare, Towards true virtue, in his own despite; As often cunning leech will burn and pare The flesh, and poisonous drug employ aright: Who, though at first his cruel art offend, Is thanked, since he preserves us in the end.
Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996
With all his sovereign sound sense, Ambrose Pare has loaded his book with references to impossibly strange, and even mythologic cases.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine George M. Gould 1996
She’s bold, Gashford?’ ‘The true religion is, my lord.’ ‘And that’s ours,’ he rejoined, moving uneasily in his seat, and biting his nails as though he would pare them to the quick.
Barnaby Rudge Charles Dickens 2006
MEDICINE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES Of the half-dozen surgeons who were prominent in the sixteenth century, Ambroise Pare (1517-1590), called the father of French surgery, is perhaps the most widely known.
A History of Science, Volume 2(of 5) Henry Smith Williams 1999

Quotes with PARE (3)

Tout bonheur est un chef-d'oeuvre: la moindre erreur le fausse, la moindre hésitation l'altère, la moindre lourder le dépare, la moindre sottise l'abêtit.
Marguerite Yourcenar Memoirs of Hadrian
L'essere notata non mi va a genio, questo mi pare chiaro.
Sara Dardikh Baci nell'ombra
In poetry we pare down our thoughts into their most graceful shapes, like minimalist sculptures.
Patricia Robin Woodruff
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 636 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).