Synonyms of the word

pare

• v. (transitive) to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.
• v. (transitive, often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting…
• v. to trim the hoof of a horse.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

decrease

• v. (intransitive) Of a quantity, to become smaller.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) smaller.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is decreased.
• n. (knitting) A reduction in the number of stitches, usually accomplished by suspending the stitch to be…

lessen

• v. (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
• v. (intransitive) To become less.

minify

• v. To make smaller.
• v. To reduce in apparent size, as for example objects viewed through a lens or mirror shaped so as to increase…
• v. (computing) To remove white space and unnecessary characters from a web page's source code in order to…

peel

• v. (transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.
• v. (transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
• v. (intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
• v. (intransitive) To remove one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).
• n. (usually uncountable) The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
• n. (countable, rugby) The action of peeling away from a formation.
• n. (countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
• n. (obsolete) A stake.
• n. (obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.
• n. (archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
• n. A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza…
• n. A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles…
• n. (archaic, US) The blade of an oar.
• n. (Scotland and curling) An equal or match; a draw.
• n. (curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.
• v. (croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).
• v. Misspelling of peal: to sound loudly.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To plunder; to pillage, rob.

skin

• n. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
• n. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
• n. (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
• n. (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
• n. (countable, computing) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical…
• n. (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
• n. (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.
• n. (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to…
• n. (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in…
• n. (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
• n. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
• n. (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
• n. (nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom…
• v. (transitive) To injure the skin of.
• v. (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
• v. (colloquial) To high five.
• v. (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).
• v. (Britain, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
• v. (intransitive) To become covered with skin.
• v. (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
• v. (US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own,…
• v. (slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.

strip

• n. (countable, uncountable) Long, thin piece of land, or of any material.
• n. A comic strip.
• n. A landing strip.
• n. A strip steak.
• n. A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
• n. (fencing) The fencing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
• n. (UK football) the uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
• n. Striptease.
• n. (mining) A trough for washing ore.
• n. The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
• v. (transitive) To remove or take away.
• v. (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
• v. (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
• v. (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear.
• v. (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
• v. (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also, strip-squeeze…
• v. (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure…
• v. (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the…
• v. (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to…
• v. (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
• v. To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
• v. To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
• v. To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
• v. To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).

trim

• v. (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'…
• v. (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
• v. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast;…
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially…
• v. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
• v. (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
• v. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
• v. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
• n. (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
• n. (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
• n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
• n. (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
• n. (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast;…
• n. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
• adj. Physically fit.
• adj. Slender, lean.
• adj. Neat or smart in appearance.
• adv. (nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
• adv. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.

whittle

• n. A knife; especially, a pocket knife, sheath knife, or clasp knife.
• v. (transitive or intransitive) To cut or shape wood with a knife.
• v. (transitive) To reduce or gradually eliminate something (such as a debt).
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To make eager or excited; to excite with liquor; to inebriate.
• n. (archaic) A coarse greyish double blanket worn by countrywomen, in the west of England, over the shoulders,…
• n. (archaic) A whittle shawl; a kind of fine woollen shawl, originally and especially a white one.