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Prune

🔄 Synonyms of "Prune"

9 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
trimnoun	(transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
cropnoun	(agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
clipnoun	To grip tightly.
cutverb	(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
dressnoun	(transitive) (also reflexive and figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.
snipnoun	To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
rationalizeverb	To justify a discreditable act, or irrational behaviour.
cut backverb	(transitive and intransitive with on) To reduce the amount of (something).
lopnoun	(transitive, 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.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Prune"

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Word	Definition
cropnoun	(agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
cutverb	(chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
dressnoun	(transitive) (also reflexive and figuratively) To put clothes (or, formerly, armour) on (oneself or someone, a doll, a mannequin, etc.); to clothe.
snipnoun	To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
lopnoun	(transitive, 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.
clipnoun	To grip tightly.
trimnoun	(transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
cut backverb	(transitive and intransitive with on) To reduce the amount of (something).
rationalizeverb	To justify a discreditable act, or irrational behaviour.
plumnoun	The fruit and its tree.
cobblenoun	(transitive) To assemble in an improvised way.
bulletnoun	A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.
curtailverb	(transitive) To shorten or abridge the duration of; to bring an end to; to truncate.
separatornoun	An object located between two or more things and hence separating them.
ticketnoun	A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
pryverb	(intransitive) To peer closely and curiously, especially at something closed or not public.
reduceverb	(transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
detachverb	(transitive) To take apart from; to take off.
separatingnoun	An instance of separating.
separationnoun	The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.