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Meaning prune meaning

What does prune mean?
Definitions in simple English

prune Noun

— A prune is a dried plum. He placed a prune in the middle of a plate of cheese and biscuits.

prune Verb

— If you prune a bush or shrub, you cut off parts of the plant. After a rose has finished flowering, you should prune it. — If you prune something, you cut it back, as if it were a plant. I was running out of money, so I had to prune my budget.

prune

— noun dried plum — verb (= cut) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet — verb (= dress, cut back) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of dress the plants in the garden

Synonyms prune synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as prune?

prune English » English

trim cut lop clip plum dried plum cut off cut down lop off dress cut off branches crop chop cut back break off snip shorten shear reduce reap rationalize rationalise pollard harvest chop off whittle down top tiller thin out terrace stool stair step space simpleton shrink scale down retrench razee put down prunus salicina prune-purple preserves pluck pick peel mow mitigate make smaller make an opening lower

Topics prune topics

What do people use prune to talk about?
Daily life Food Types of food Food from plants

Food from fruit
Work and occupation Agriculture Growing crops Growing fruit

Growing grapes
Work and occupation Agriculture Growing crops Growing fruit

Growing bananas
Work and occupation Agriculture Growing crops

Growing flowers
Work and occupation Agriculture Growing crops

Growing trees
Work and occupation Agriculture Tend a field

Trim plants
Work and occupation Agriculture

Agricultural tool

Conjugation prune conjugation

How do you conjugate prune?

prune · verb

Examples prune examples

How do I use prune in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I cannot prune this tree. It's too high.
Prune roses every spring.
Do not prune roses in the fall.
Tell Tom that I'll prune his trees for him.
Tell Tom that I'll prune the trees.

Movie subtitles

He took only his prune juice.
Prune juice? Is he sick?
Even then I went so far as to examine the family tree and prune it to just the living members.
Vodka, champagne, prune juice, floating chopped chives.
We will do what we prune.
I DON'T WANT TO LOOK LIKE A DRIED-UP OLD PRUNE.
Hey, you're all dressed up like a prune picker.
You sure it wasn't a prune Danish?
There you are. Pure Irish linen with a touch of prune Danish. You owe me two dollars.
Sending a wounded man back to the front in my clothes. and toasting it with prune juice.
He never could handle his prune juice.
Knocked off six husbands by sprinkling arsenic on their prune whip.
Alex Kintner, they're beginning to prune.
If you prune any more of that, there'll be nothing left.
I'll switch to prune juice.
Prune-puss, you make sounds I don't like.
I went to junior school, I prune my vines and I'm a republican.
WELL, AFTER 500 YEARS I DON'T WANT TO LOOK LIKE A DRIED-UP OLD PRUNE.
I'm awfully sorry I thought you were a prune.
He looked like a prune.
Prune pits.
I can't spend the rest of my married life sleeping on the couch. and eating prune pits.
Well,just in case she doesn't come around, I'm gonna get used to eating prune pits.
And then Mrs. Haggerty, knocked off six husbands, by sprinkeling arsenic on their prune whip!
Prune?
I'll have a prune Danish, please.
Look, it's a stewed prune!
Prune Danish, quart of champagne.
But, in order for the fence to be good, you have to prune it now and then.
Low-fat prune yogurt.
Lots of fruit there. this year except for the prune trees.
To make honey, young bee need young flower, not old prune.
I wanted to mow the grass, burn the weeds, prune the trees.
Prune quiche, that's one for our vegetarian friends.
If I wanted to be a prune, I'd try lawn bowling.
Prune the fruit trees.
Likewise, old prune.
Gin and prune juice.
What the fuck is it now, you dried up old prune?

News and current affairs

Even at Japan's world-beating export firms, reluctance to confront the ingrained interests of the old-boy network has made it difficult to prune less profitable product lines - and the workers who make them.
There is no way around the need for Dubai to restructure and prune its excesses before it can resume a more sustainable growth trajectory, though achieving this will take time.
This would prune the role of greed and envy in the operation of markets, and create room for the flourishing of other motives.

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