prune
dried plum
• Hypernyms:
dried fruit
1. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- dress the plants in the garden
• Syn:
snip, clip, crop, trim, lop,
dress, cut back
• Derivationally related forms:
pruner, pruning, lopper (for: lop), trim (for: trim), trimmer (for: trim), trimming (for: trim), crop (for: crop), clip (for: clip), clipper (for: clip), clipping (for: clip), snip (for: snip)
• Hypernyms:
thin out
• Hyponyms:
shear, poll, pollard, top, pinch, disbud
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- They prune the trees
2. weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet
• Syn:
cut, rationalize, rationalise
• See Also:
cut back (for: cut), cut out (for: cut)
• Hypernyms:
extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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