| 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" |
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