Definition for Paring:

• The act of cutting off the surface or extremites of anything.

Synonyms for Paring:

• n.

  •a small quantity (noun)
  • Bitting.
  •flake (noun)
  • flake,
  • dandruff,
  • scale,
  • fleck.
  •food (noun)
  • paring.

• v.

  •cheapening (verb)
  • slashing,
  • degrading,
  • belittling,
  • Cheapening,
  • marking down,
  • devaluating,
  • devaluing,
  • debasing.
  •diminishing (verb)
  • shearing,
  • trimming,
  • diminishing,
  • shaving,
  • decreasing,
  • Depleting,
  • Truncating,
  • Weeding,
  • contracting,
  • Abridging,
  • reducing,
  • shrinking,
  • Culling,
  • nipping,
  • shortening,
  • Cropping,
  • compressing,
  • clipping,
  • Concentrating,
  • draining,
  • pruning,
  • tapering,
  • Compacting,
  • Abbreviating,
  • eroding,
  • Curtailing,
  • Bobbing,
  • downgrading,
  • lessening,
  • decrementing,
  • dwindling,
  • condensing,
  • lightening,
  • minimizing,
  • deflating.
  •separating (verb)
  • Disintegrating,
  • Disjoining,
  • disaffiliating,
  • splitting,
  • dismantling,
  • Segregating,
  • Disconnecting,
  • Dissociating,
  • Disassociating,
  • unhinging,
  • Removing,
  • parting,
  • Separating,
  • ripping,
  • breaking,
  • Disuniting,
  • fragmenting,
  • alienating,
  • Bisecting,
  • Insulating,
  • unfixing,
  • estranging,
  • Detaching,
  • Divorcing,
  • Sundering,
  • cleaving,
  • uncoupling,
  • ungluing,
  • Excising,
  • severing,
  • Halving,
  • disassembling,
  • dividing,
  • Dissecting,
  • axing,
  • Incising,
  • slicing,
  • Amputating,
  • Disengaging,
  • rending.
  •subtracting (verb)
  • lowering,
  • Discounting,
  • Deducting,
  • Subtracting,
  • depreciating,
  • docking,
  • Deleting,
  • cutting,
  • Eliding.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • plow.
  •blade
  • knife.

Paring Sentence Examples:

• So long as there was no probability of war, the people of England have quietly permitted the cheese - paring politicians who govern us to cut down the army and navy to a point when we can hardly be said to have an army at all.

• She told them that she would interest them in her business, and pay them a sou a day to assist her in paring her vegetables.

Homophones for Paring:

• pairing.

Hypernym for Paring:

• n.

  • object
    turning, splint.

Hyponym for Paring:

• n.

  • food
    physical object, object.
  • object
    fragment.