0 past simple and past participle of pare
1 to cut away the outer layer from something, especially a fruit or a vegetable:
Even in instances in which alternatives are pared down to one, one could still exercise volitional control in per forming the sole "open" action.
The more abstract and pared down both schemes become, the more difficult they are to detail and represent.
He has consistently pared away many of the illusions that can foster a self-congratulatory complacency among the apostles and acolytes of liberal constitutionalism.
His own indications of the plays' settings are therefore extremely simple, pared down, and stripped of naturalistic detail.
Any pared-down, parsimonious approach to culture leaves out too much reality.
Yet, his own influence in the neighbourhood and, as a consequence, also in the workplace had been pared down.
This pared-down approach is brilliantly suited to a play in which things get blown out of all proportion.
Another essential claim of the present account which must be worked out in more detail is that children derive ' pared down ' versions of the constructions to which they are exposed.
