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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pare to the bone en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To pare down to an extreme degree.
    • Distilling costs were already pared to the bone, and the serious credit crisis in Bordeaux in 1789 first put at risk those houses which were already short of resources. 2002, L. M. Cullen, The Brandy Trade Under the Ancien Régime, page 246:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
paring to the bone Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pares to the bone Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
pared to the bone Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pared to the bone Tense=Past lexicographic