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prune

verb as in trim; cut short

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This was the case with Prune Nourry, a young French sculptress who went to India to create a piece of art interpreting women.

We made the prune based Chocolate Fudge Torte at the bakery and it left everyone slack-jawed.

Whereupon Hard concluded by biting into a large piece of prune pie.

I used to prune a bit, too, in spare moments, so that by the end of the summer considerable renovation had been accomplished.

He tells me the right way to plant potatoes and prune apple-trees, and our communion is blest with eupeptic content.

To cut or prune gooseberry and currant-trees is very simple.

The prune trees took up the glad news and whispered it to the apricot trees, "It is a boy."

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On this page you'll find 42 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to prune, such as: cut back, shave, shear, shorten, snip, and clip.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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