pare down

1. 1.

   decrease gradually or bit by bit

   Synonymspare

   Broaderdecrease

Questions about pare down

What does pare down mean?

pare down means "decrease gradually or bit by bit".

What is another word for pare down?

Close synonyms include pare. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pare down a common word?

pare down is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.