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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (obsolete) A plum.
- The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
- (slang) An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.
Verb
- (transitive) To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.
- (transitive, figuratively) To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material).
- (obsolete) To preen; to prepare; to dress.
Exempel
- A good grape grower will prune his vines once a year.
- Our delightful task / To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers.
- to prune a budget, or an essay
- taking into consideration how they [laws] are to be pruned and reformed
- His royal bird / Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak.
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