RELATED WORDS
PARAPHRASING
1) to cut away the outer part, edge or skin of (something) (pare)
2) a kind of dried plum; to cut away parts of (trees, bushes etc) in order to control growth or shape (prune)
to cut off (e.g. and arm, a leg) by surgery
remove a limb
(to make) a small cut in something
knock a piece out of