| VERB | contact | prune, snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, cut back | cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | prune, cut, rationalize, rationalise | weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | |
| NOUN | food | prune | dried plum |
| Sounds | pruw'n | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | afternoon ... Witherspoon: 64 rhymes with uwn... | |
| Meaning | dried plum. | |
|---|---|---|
| Broader | dried fruit | fruit preserved by drying |
| Spanish | ciruela pasa | |
| Catalan | pruna de confitar, pruna de coure, pruna, pruna seca | |
| Meaning | cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Model | They prune the trees | |
| Synonyms | snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, cut back | |
| Narrower | disbud | thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers |
| poll, pollard | convert into a pollard | |
| shear | cut with shears | |
| top, pinch | cut the top off | |
| Broader | thin out | make sparse |
| Spanish | podar | |
| Catalan | esporgar, podar | |
| Nouns | pruner | a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper |
| pruner | a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs | |
| pruning | the act of trimming a plant | |
| Meaning | weed out unwanted or unnecessary things. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Synonyms | cut, rationalize, rationalise | |
| Broader | extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with | Terminate, end, or take out |
| Spanish | escamondar | |
| Catalan | esporgar | |
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