pul-ong : Binisaya - Cebuano to English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

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Word:

pul-ong [pul.ung.] :

lop off (v.); prune (v.)

Synonyms: pung-ol; puong

Derivatives of pul-ong

Glosses:

lop off
v. (contact)	1. chop off, cut off, lop off	remove by or as if by cutting.; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"
	~ abscise	remove or separate by abscission.
	~ roach	cut the mane off (a horse).
	~ come away, come off, detach	come to be detached.; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"
prune
n. (food)	1. prune	dried plum.
	~ dried fruit	fruit preserved by drying.
v. (contact)	2. clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim	cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.; "dress the plants in the garden"
	~ thin out	make sparse.; "thin out the young plants"
	~ shear	cut with shears.; "shear hedges"
	~ pollard, poll	convert into a pollard.; "pollard trees"
	~ pinch, top	cut the top off.; "top trees and bushes"
	~ disbud	thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers.
v. (change)	3. cut, prune, rationalise, rationalize	weed out unwanted or unnecessary things.; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"
	~ do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish	terminate, end, or take out.; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"