"pare down" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-pare down.ogg Forms: pares down [present, singular, third-person], paring down [participle, present], pared down [participle, past], pared down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} pare down (third-person singular simple present pares down, present participle paring down, simple past and past participle pared down)
  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To reduce by paring or a similar gradual process. Tags: idiomatic, transitive Translations (to reduce by paring): osekat [perfective] (Czech), ořezat [perfective] (Czech), zredukovat [perfective] (Czech), snížit [perfective] (Czech), beschneiden (German), runa (Maori), обстру́гивать (obstrúgivatʹ) [imperfective, neuter] (Russian), skära ner (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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