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2. prune, crop, top, cut back, reduce, cut down to size; trim, clip, shear, shave, mow, cut short, dock; cut off or away, lop, remove, retrench.
3. cut down, cut back, retrench, curtail, limit; reduce, diminish, decrease, cut, slash, lower, lessen.

parent, n. 1. genitor, father, Inf. old man, Brit. Inf. pater, paterfamilias; mother, Inf. old lady, Brit. Inf. mater, materfamilias; parents, SI. fossils; (both of animals) dam, sire; foster parent, foster mother, foster father, guardian; stepparent, stepmother, stepfather; mother-in-law, father-in-law, in-law; godparent, godmother, godfather.
2. ancestor, antecedent, forefather, forbear, Archaic. sire, patriarch, matriarch; progenitor, primogenitor, Archaic, predecessor; procreator, begetter.
3. cause, source, root, origin, fountainhead, mainspring; agent, mover, prime mover; author, creator, producer, originator.
4. precursor, predecessor, forerunner; prototype, model, exemplar.
5. protector, protectress, guardian, guardian angel, watchdog, defender, preserver.
-v. 6. foster, raise, bring up, rear; mother, care
for, take care of, cherish, nurture, nourish.

parentage, n. ancestry, ancestral line, lineage, de scent, birth, origin, derivation, extraction, filiation; family, dynasty, tribe, clan; race, strain, stock, breed, bloodline, pedigree, stem, branch, stirps; heredity, genealogy, family tree; heritage, patrimony, background, past, history, roots.

parental, adj. paternal, fatherly, fatherlike; maternal,
motherly, motherlike.

parenthetic, adj. parenthetical, incidental, by-the-way; subordinate, secondary, inconsequential; extrinsic, extrinsical, extraneous, external, nonessential, unessential, inessential, adventitious; inserted, interposed, interjacent, intermediate, intermediary, intervening, interfering; explanatory, descriptive, justificatory, explicative; elucidative, commentarial, illustrative, expressive; qualifying, limiting.

pariah, n. 1. outcast, castaway, Ishmael, unperson, nonperson; exile, expatriate, political refugee; fugitive, runaway, outlaw; excommunicate, rejectee, leper, untouchable.
2. wanderer, vagabond, rover, itinerant, nomad, bird of passage; beachcomber, vagrant, hobo, knight-of-the-road, tramp; beggar, panhandler, scavenger; derelict, degenerate, down-and-outer, U.S. Inf. bum, U.S. Inf. stumblebum; SI. scum, SI. dregs.

paring, n. peel, peeling, skin, rind, bark, shell, husk;
slice, sliver, shive, shaving, piece, bit; scrap, remnant, shred, snip, snippet, cutting; splinter, flake, scale, fragment, shard.

parish, n. 1. (all usu. ecclesiastical) district, vicari ate, bishopric, precinct, prefecture, constituency, ar-rondissement, ward, province, borough, canton, quarter, region, territory, demesne, Brit, glebe.
2. parishioners, congregation, flock, fold, laity, laymen, brethren.

parity, n. 1. equality, coequality, equivalence, equipollence, equipollency, parallelism, evenness, levelness, (of rights) isonomy; identity, par, oneness, sameness, unity; symmetry, proportion, balance; homogeneity, monotony, uniformity, consistency; equilibrium, equation; equal terms, quits.