- snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back - cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
--1 is one way to thin out
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun pruner1, noun pruner2, noun pruning2
They prune the trees
- cut, prune, rationalize, rationalise - weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"
--2 is one way to eliminate, get rid of, do away with
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something