Word Meanings - PRUNE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

propagation; hence, probably, the meaning, to cut away superfluous 1. To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.

Additional info about word: PRUNE

propagation; hence, probably, the meaning, to cut away superfluous 1. To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay. Thackeray. Taking into consideration how they are to be pruned and reformed. Bacon. Our delightful task To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers. Milton. 2. To cut off or cut out, as useless parts. Horace will our superfluous branches prune. Waller. 3. To preen; to prepare; to dress. Spenser. His royal bird Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRUNE)

• Abbreviate
• Shorten
• reduce
• abridge
• contract
• curtail
• epitomize
• condense
• prune
• compress
• Amputate
• Prune
• lop
• clip
• remove
• Clip
• Curtail
• Lop
• shorten
• retrench
• amputate
• truncate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRUNE)

• Expand
• amplify
• dilate
• elongate
• reverse
• cancel
• abandon

Related words: (words related to PRUNE)

• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• EPITOMIZER
  An epitomist. Burton.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• PRUNER
  Any one of several species of beetles whose larvæ gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner , whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly
• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• CANCELLATE
  Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• CANCEL
  To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate;
• CURTAILER
  One who curtails.
• COMPRESSIVE
  Compressing, or having power or tendency to compress; as, a compressive force.
• CONTRACTED
  1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted
• RETRENCH
  To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions. Syn. -- To lesen; diminish; curtail; abridge. (more info) 1. To cut off; to pare away. Thy exuberant parts retrench. Denham. 2. To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench
• CONDENSER
  An apparatus for receiving and condensing the volatile products of distillation to a liquid or solid form, by cooling. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, condenses. 2. An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting
• ABBREVIATED
  Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.
• ABANDON
  To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender;
• EXPANDER
  Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
• PRUNELLA; PRUNELLO
  A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.
• PRUNELLE
  A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.
• CANCELLI
  The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities. (more info) 1. An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure; latticework, rails, or crossbars, as around the
• CURTAIL
  To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce. I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion. Shak. Our incomes have been curtailed; his salary has been doubled. Macualay.
• REPRUNE
  To prune again or anew. Yet soon reprunes her wing to soar anew. Young.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• OBTRUNCATE
  To deprive of a limb; to lop.
• INCOMPRESSIBLE
  Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.
• SUBDILATED
  Partially dilated.