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Noun pruning has 2 senses
- pruning - something that has been pruned off of a plant
--1 is a kind of cutting
- pruning - the act of trimming a plant
--2 is a kind of trim, trimming, clipping
Verb prune has 2 senses
- snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back - cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
--1 is one way to thin out
Sample sentence:
They prune the trees
- cut, prune, rationalize, rationalise - weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"
--2 is one way to eliminate, get rid of, do away with
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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