prune

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Synonyms: prone, prude, rune, pruny, prunt, prine, pune, pruno, pruce, prue, paune

Antonyms: prone, prude, rune, pruny, prunt, prine, pune, pruno, pruce, prue, paune

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Noun

1. A plum.
2. The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
3. Something wrinkly like a prune.
4. An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.

Verb

1. To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.

Verb

1. To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
   • A good grape grower will prune the vines once a year.
2. To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
   • to prune a budget, or an essay
3. To remove (something unnecessary) for the sake of cutting down or shortening that which it was previously part of.
4. To remove participation status from or contributed material attributed to users usually deemed inactive or undesirable from an interactive computer service or website for the sake of housekeeping.
5. To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
6. To trim the feathers with the beak.
7. To preen; to prepare; to dress.

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