English verb: prune |
1. | prune (contact) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of |
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| Samples | Dress the plants in the garden.
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| Examples | They prune the trees |
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| Synonyms | clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, snip, trim |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something |
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| Broader (hypernym) | thin out |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | disbud, pinch, poll, pollard, shear, top |
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2. | prune (change) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things |
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| Samples | We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet.
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| Synonyms | cut, rationalise, rationalize |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something |
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| Broader (hypernym) | do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of |
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