Usually means: Reduce something to its essentials.
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  1. pare to the bone: Merriam-Webster
  2. pare to the bone: TheFreeDictionary.com
  3. pare to the bone: Wiktionary

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  1. pare to the bone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pare to the bone: Medical dictionary

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  1. pare to the bone: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pare to the bone)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To pare down to an extreme degree.

Similar:
whittle, reduce, trim, shave, scrape, detruncate, pare, truncate, amputate, averruncate, more...

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whittle, reduce, trim, shave, scrape, detruncate, pare, truncate, amputate, averruncate, more...



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