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Synonyms for prune
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Princeton's WordNet
pruneverb
dried plum
snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut backverb
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
"dress the plants in the garden"
Synonyms:
line up, pare, work, crop, dress out, shave, preen, apparel, range, trim down, primp, garment, snip off, cut, curtail, jog, trim back, trim, browse, garnish, arrange, sever, garb, cut down, raiment, pasture, coiffe, reduce, habilitate, discerp, coiffure, do, flash back, get dressed, rationalize, curb, plume, rationalise, cut short, coif, nip off, curry, restrict, fit out, clip, trot, dress up, decorate, cultivate, bring down, clothe, graze, tog, cut back, enclothe, set, snip, lop, dress, groomcut, prune, rationalize, rationaliseverb
weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
"We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"
Synonyms:
veer, bring down, justify, snub, turn off, edit out, cut, burn, rationalize, hack, trim down, apologize, write out, thin, slue, trim back, trim, ignore, swerve, shorten, apologise, cut off, edit, thin out, cut down, skip, abridge, reduce, rationalise, contract, foreshorten, dilute, curve, excuse, switch off, sheer, make out, geld, slew, tailor, turn out, clip, crop, disregard, issue, cut back, abbreviate, trend, snip, lop, dress
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#47 | do | |
#125 | work | |
#189 | set | |
#603 | browse | |
#604 | issue | |
#605 | range | |
#848 | edit | |
#1204 | contract | |
#1324 | cut | |
#1838 | skip | |
#2005 | apparel | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#2549 | clip | |
#2868 | dress | |
#4349 | thin | |
#4405 | trend | |
#4719 | ignore | |
#4915 | burn | |
#5648 | crop | |
#5714 | curve | |
#5998 | trim | |
#7475 | arrange | |
#7679 | bullet | |
#8269 | sheer | |
#8412 | hack | |
#8557 | excuse | |
#9424 | restrict | |
#9531 | justify | |
#11535 | curry | |
#12551 | curb | |
#12675 | garment | |
#13461 | tailor | |
#13932 | plum | |
#14900 | groom | |
#15033 | apologize | |
#15075 | shave | |
#17105 | decorate | |
#18003 | pasture | |
#18414 | disregard | |
#22194 | slew | |
#22890 | plume | |
#23816 | snip | |
#24442 | cultivate | |
#26128 | shorten | |
#26264 | jog | |
#28687 | dilute | |
#29637 | geld | |
#31029 | apologise | |
#31472 | garnish | |
#31755 | trot | |
#32728 | prune | |
#32799 | sever | |
#35247 | garb | |
#40610 | veer | |
#41636 | lop | |
#42771 | pare | |
#43009 | rationalize | |
#43430 | curtail | |
#47241 | tog | |
#47400 | graze | |
#52288 | clothe | |
#58771 | snub | |
#60871 | swerve | |
#70945 | raiment | |
#82163 | abbreviate | |
#94999 | rationalise | |
#101576 | abridge | |
#114999 | coif | |
#118039 | drees | |
#118633 | preen | |
#135482 | coiffure | |
#140126 | primp | |
#173180 | amputate |
How to use prune in a sentence?
Sometimes pruning occurs, that's where the [ correction in times of stress comes from ]. You prune a plant so that it's even healthier when it comes out from its pruning.
Plant the flower of love on fertile ground, and provide personal care; furnish water during a drought; offer substance so it will grow strong, and always prune the deadened branches to spring anew.
Try laxatives, milk of magnesia or any of the common laxatives, prune juice, or apple juice works to help with evacuating.
It allows him to prune his contacts, there was a lot of relief.
In general, the time that I tend to recommend juice is if kids have constipation, and apple juice and prune juice can sometimes help with that.
Translations for prune
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- خوخ مجفف, أجاصArabic
- podarCatalan, Valencian
- sušená švestka, prořezatCzech
- sveskeDanish
- Backpflaume, schneiden, ausschneiden, beschneiden, TrockenpflaumeGerman
- κλαδεύωGreek
- podar, ciruela pasaSpanish
- شاخ و برگPersian
- karsia, vesoa, oksiaFinnish
- élaguer, émonder, pruneauFrench
- meangIrish
- ameixa secadaGalician
- छटनाHindi
- aszalt szilvaHungarian
- սալորաչիրArmenian
- sveskjaIcelandic
- sfoltire, prugna secca, ridurre, potare, accorciareItalian
- ಕತ್ತರಿಸುKannada
- pampinōLatin
- кастри, сува сливаMacedonian
- beskjære, sviskeNorwegian
- besje, snoeien, inkortenDutch
- sviskeNorwegian Nynorsk
- kvisteNorwegian
- chʼil naʼatłʼoʼiitsohNavajo, Navaho
- podarOccitan
- suszona śliwkaPolish
- maracujá de gaveta, [[ameixa]] [[seca]], podarPortuguese
- ch'aphranayQuechua
- tagliar giu, tschancunarRomansh
- curăță, emonda, prună uscatăRomanian
- чернослив, прореживатьRussian
- pudare, putare, pudaiSardinian
- сува шљива, suva šljivaSerbo-Croatian
- ansa, sviskon, tukta, beskära, skära ner, katrinplommonSwedish
- ப்ரூனேTamil
- muşmula suratlı, kuru erik, muşmulaTurkish
- خشک آلوچہUrdu
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