curtail vs pare

curtail

verb
  • To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate. 

  • To limit or restrict, keep in check. 

noun
  • A scroll termination, as of a step, etc. 

pare

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

  • To trim the hoof of a horse. 

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

  • To sharpen a pencil. 

How often have the words curtail and pare occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )