prune

prune ¹  (prn)

n.

1.

a. The partially dried fruit of any of several varieties of the common plum, Prunus domestica.

b. Any kind of plum that can be dried without spoiling.

2. Slang An ill-tempered, stupid, or incompetent person.

intr.v. pruned, prun·ing, prunes Slang

To make a facial expression exhibiting ill temper or disgust: "Their faces prune at the slightest provocation" James Wolcott.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *prna, from Latin prnum, plum.]

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prune ¹

Noun

a purplish-black partially dried plum [Latin prunum plum]

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prune ²

Verb

[pruning, pruned]

1. to cut off dead or surplus branches of (a tree or shrub)

2. to shorten or reduce [Old French proignier to clip]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	prune - dried plum dried fruit - fruit preserved by drying
Verb	1.	prune - cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden" lop, snip, cut back, clip, crop, trim, dress thin out - make sparse; "thin out the young plants" shear - cut with shears; "shear hedges" pollard, poll - convert into a pollard; "pollard trees" pinch, top - cut the top off; "top trees and bushes" disbud - thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers
	2.	prune - weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet" rationalize, rationalise, cut do away with, eliminate, get rid of, extinguish - terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts"

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prune

verb 1. cut, trim, clip, dock, shape, cut back, shorten, snip, lop, pare down

2. reduce, cut, cut back, trim, cut down, pare down, make reductions in

Translations

prune [pruːn] n → ciruela pasa

vt → podar

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prune [pruːn] n → pruneau m

vt → élaguer

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prune [pruːn] n → Backpflaume f

vt [+ plant] → stutzen, beschneiden

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prune [pruːn] n → prugna secca

vt → potare