Pare vs. Peel — What's the Difference?

To remove the outer covering or skin of with a knife or similar instrument

Remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit, vegetable, or prawn)

To remove by or as if by cutting, clipping, or shaving

Remove a thin outer covering or part

To reduce, as in quantity or size; trim

(of a surface or object) lose parts of its outer layer or covering in small strips or pieces

(transitive) To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife.

Send (another player's ball) through a hoop

To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off.

The outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable

To trim the hoof of a horse.

An act of exfoliating dead skin in the cosmetic treatment of microdermabrasion.

To sharpen a pencil.

A flat implement like a shovel, especially one used by a baker for carrying loaves or similar items of food into or out of an oven

To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.

A small square defensive tower of a kind built in the 16th century in the border counties of England and Scotland.

To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, rind, or outside part, from anything; - followed by off or away; as, to pare off the rind of fruit; to pare away redundancies.

The skin or rind of certain fruits and vegetables.

Fig.: To diminish the bulk of; to reduce; to lessen.

A chemical peel.

Decrease gradually or bit by bit

A long-handled, shovellike tool used by bakers to move bread or pastries into and out of an oven.

Cut small bits or pare shavings from;

(Printing) A T-shaped pole used for hanging up freshly printed sheets of paper to dry.

Strip the skin off;

A fortified house or tower of a kind constructed in the borderland of Scotland and England in the 1500s.

Remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size;

To strip or cut away the skin, rind, or bark from; pare.

To strip away; pull off

To lose or shed skin, bark, or other covering.

To come off in thin strips or pieces, as bark, skin, or paint

(transitive) To remove the skin or outer covering of.

(transitive) To remove something from the outer or top layer of.

(intransitive) To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.

(intransitive) To remove one's clothing.

(intransitive) To move, separate (off or away).

(curling) To play a peel shot.

(croquet) To send through a hoop (of a ball other than one's own).

To plunder; to pillage, rob.

The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.

The action of peeling away from a formation.

(countable) A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.

(obsolete) A stake.

(obsolete) A fence made of stakes; a stockade.

(archaic) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

A shovel or similar instrument, now especially a pole with a flat disc at the end used for removing pizza or loaves of bread from a baker's oven.

A T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry.

The blade of an oar.

An equal or match; a draw.

(curling) A takeout which removes a stone from play as well as the delivered stone.

A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.

The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.

To plunder; to pillage; to rob.

To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.

To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.

To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; - often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.

To strip naked; to disrobe. Often used with down .

The tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit)

British politician (1788-1850)

The rind of a fruit or vegetable

Strip the skin off;

Come off in flakes or thin small pieces;

Get undressed;