Definition for Paring:

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

Synonyms for Paring:

• n.

  •flake (noun)
  • flake,
  • dandruff,
  • scale,
  • fleck.

• 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:

  •blade
  • knife.
  •Other relevant words:
  • balance,
  • clip,
  • scrag,
  • straw,
  • mote,
  • assuage,
  • Bistoury,
  • dwindle,
  • end,
  • minim,
  • floccule,
  • scantling,
  • holdover,
  • leveling,
  • deflate,
  • pare,
  • shade,
  • chipping,
  • dash,
  • droplet,
  • allay,
  • residuum,
  • pruning shears,
  • Dight,
  • excoriating,
  • shadow,
  • gleam,
  • wastage,
  • dab,
  • comparing,
  • cut back,
  • relics,
  • minimum,
  • flock,
  • nail clipper,
  • waste,
  • cutlery,
  • Collop,
  • Sharpening,
  • edge tool,
  • scissors,
  • residue,
  • flinders,
  • dregs,
  • potsherds,
  • lighten,
  • sprinkling,
  • Barking,
  • molecule,
  • reduce,
  • screed,
  • dot,
  • crumb,
  • shards,
  • tinge,
  • fritter,
  • scum,
  • bate,
  • hunk,
  • cut,
  • mattock,
  • alleviate,
  • lump,
  • Whittling,
  • stubble,
  • cast,
  • drop,
  • bones,
  • seed,
  • scoop,
  • paper cutter,
  • atom,
  • DROS,
  • iota,
  • speck,
  • tatter,
  • incrustation,
  • modicum,
  • item,
  • waste matter,
  • lose,
  • ace,
  • shining,
  • Flocculus,
  • vanishing point,
  • remains,
  • corpuscle,
  • idea,
  • scraps,
  • flitter,
  • mitigate,
  • lancet,
  • shard,
  • fossil,
  • carving,
  • afterglow,
  • vestige,
  • Skinning,
  • leftovers,
  • Orts,
  • Manicuring,
  • hair,
  • slops,
  • sip,
  • scrap,
  • soupcon,
  • granule,
  • shave,
  • slop,
  • Scrambling,
  • colter,
  • guillotine,
  • billhook,
  • pick,
  • refuse,
  • diminish,
  • dishwater,
  • smithereen,
  • shred,
  • debase,
  • inch,
  • Cantlet,
  • bit,
  • chisel,
  • rest,
  • pickax,
  • Loping,
  • abatement,
  • mollify,
  • sup,
  • penknife,
  • bushwhacker,
  • husks,
  • ruins,
  • gob,
  • scruple,
  • chunk,
  • rasher,
  • snatch,
  • coulter,
  • dust,
  • rubbish,
  • Abrading,
  • look,
  • whack,
  • deduct,
  • electric razor,
  • afterimage,
  • abbreviate,
  • odds and ends,
  • Leavings,
  • snippet,
  • degrade,
  • dreg,
  • Levelling,
  • tittle,
  • stump,
  • ax,
  • slip,
  • Draff,
  • cutters,
  • plowshare,
  • modify,
  • remainder,
  • slag,
  • dressing,
  • Filings,
  • sop,
  • scoring,
  • straight razor,
  • Drawing knife,
  • Shive,
  • grain,
  • wood shavings,
  • sickle,
  • butt,
  • lessen,
  • abate,
  • scalpel,
  • palliate,
  • piece,
  • Sweepings,
  • jot,
  • Lopping,
  • shears,
  • scintilla,
  • scraping,
  • slice,
  • particle,
  • Minutiae,
  • snack,
  • snip,
  • Flaking,
  • tincture,
  • spark,
  • smack,
  • chaff,
  • balancing,
  • struggling,
  • detract,
  • survival,
  • pare down,
  • Clambering,
  • razor,
  • Tallying,
  • offal,
  • sword,
  • bring down,
  • bodkin,
  • spice,
  • grazing,
  • mite,
  • slack,
  • belittle,
  • lees,
  • Attenuating,
  • analysis,
  • touch,
  • blade,
  • depress,
  • adze,
  • scurf,
  • bowie knife,
  • Averaging,
  • jag,
  • sputtering,
  • peel,
  • moiety,
  • remnant,
  • point,
  • shiver,
  • offscourings,
  • scourings,
  • stitch,
  • safety razor,
  • hint,
  • Stubbing,
  • wastepaper,
  • arms,
  • detritus,
  • snick,
  • driblet,
  • Scalping,
  • rags,
  • details,
  • gash,
  • raspings,
  • fall,
  • cutting edge,
  • garbage,
  • scythe,
  • peeling,
  • morsel,
  • curtail,
  • dollop,
  • skimming,
  • razor blade,
  • tares,
  • sawdust,
  • rump,
  • hatchet,
  • thought,
  • Deadwood,
  • microtome,
  • whit,
  • culm,
  • impair,
  • globule,
  • trace,
  • swill,
  • cutter,
  • minimize,
  • roach,
  • patch,
  • wire cutters,
  • Flaying,
  • cleaver,
  • scrap iron,
  • Garnishing,
  • deaden,
  • gill,
  • hogwash,
  • husking,
  • leaving,
  • rind,
  • morceau,
  • weeds,
  • Perforator,
  • debris,
  • whittle.

Homophones for Paring:

• pairing.

Hypernym for Paring:

• n.

  • object
    turning, splint.

Hyponym for Paring:

• n.

  • food
    physical object, object.
  • object
    fragment.