prune

Noun
  1. Dried plum (synset 107768578)
    is a type of: dried fruit - fruit preserved by drying
Verb
  1. Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of (synset 201323662)
    "dress the plants in the garden"
    is a type of: thin out - make sparse
    subtypes:
    • shear - cut with shears
    • poll, pollard - convert into a pollard
    • pinch, top - cut the top off
    • disbud - thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers
    same as: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, snip, trim
  2. Weed out unwanted or unnecessary things (synset 200474253)
    "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"
    is a type of: do away with, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of - terminate, end, or take out
    same as: cut, rationalise, rationalize

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