Prune Synonyms

pro͝on
To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. chop
  2. clip
  3. crop
  4. cut
  5. cut back
  6. cut down
  7. lop
  8. lower
  9. pare
  10. shear
  11. slash
  12. trim
  13. truncate
Weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. clip
  2. cut
  3. lop
  4. crop
  5. snip
  6. trim
  7. pare
  8. shave
  9. shear
  10. dock
  11. rationalize
  12. thin
  13. dress
  14. cut back
  15. rationalise

Words Related to Prune

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. increase
  2. repot
  3. re-potting
  4. re-pot
  5. scarify
  6. replant
  7. pruning
  8. strim
  9. deadhead
  10. mow
  11. seedling

Prune Sentence Examples

  • We're drain­ing him drier than a prune.

  • He didn't spend much time at the hospital because the step father is a prune and he snubbed Julie.

  • In the forcing-houses prune and train the trees; fork over and dress the borders of such houses as have not been already done.

  • Anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of trees knows that you do not prune them by chopping all the branches off.

  • June or July is the best time to prune raspberry bushes.

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