PRUNE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prune mean?
• PRUNE (noun)
The noun PRUNE has 1 sense:
1. dried plum
Familiarity information: PRUNE used as a noun is very rare.
• PRUNE (verb)
The verb PRUNE has 2 senses:
1. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
2. weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
Familiarity information: PRUNE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PRUNE (noun)
Meaning:
Dried plum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("prune" is a kind of...):
dried fruit (fruit preserved by drying)
• PRUNE (verb)
Meaning:
Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
prune; snip; lop; cut back; clip; crop; trim; dress
Context example:
dress the plants in the garden
Hypernyms (to "prune" is one way to...):
thin out (make sparse)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "prune"):
shear (cut with shears)
poll; pollard (convert into a pollard)
pinch; top (cut the top off)
disbud (thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
They prune the trees
Meaning:
Weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
prune; rationalize; rationalise; cut
Context example:
We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet
Hypernyms (to "prune" is one way to...):
do away with; eliminate; get rid of (terminate or take out)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
