Pruning synonyms

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trimming
(Obs.) To prepare; fit out; dress
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dressing
To dress in formal clothes
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cropping
To harvest:
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lopping
(Usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
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slashing
To reduce drastically
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shearing
To cut with or as if with shears:
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paring
To reduce or diminish (costs, etc.) gradually
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lowering
To reduce in standing or respect.
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cutting
To reduce, especially intentionally.
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clipping
To cut or cut off with shears or scissors
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chopping
To reduce abruptly or by a large amount:
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increasing (related)
Increase is defined as to become bigger or greater.
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thinnings (related)
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mulching (related)
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mowings (related)
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shrubs (related)
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prunings (related)
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snipping
To cut or clip with short, quick strokes.
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rationalizing
To attempt to justify one's behavior by providing reasons that obscure one's actual motives.
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thinning
So as to be thin:
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docking
To clip short or cut off (an animal's tail, for example).
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truncating
(Mathematics) To shorten a decimal number by removing trailing (leading) digits; to chop.
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shaving
To crop, trim, or mow closely:
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Pruning Sentence Examples

  • Finish the pruning of fruit trees before the middle of the month.

  • The blossoms of the peach are formed the autumn previous to their expansion, and this fact, together with the peculiarities of their form and position, requires to be borne in mind by the gardener in his pruning and training operations.

  • The trees form their heads naturally, and therefore little pruning is required, it being merely necessary to cut off straggling growths, and to prevent the branches from interlacing.

  • The Pruning of flowering plants is generally a much lighter matter than the pruning of fruit trees.

  • P. alba suffers much from the ravages of wood-eating larvae, and also from fungoid growths, especially where the branches have been removed by pruning or accident.

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