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