Noun pruning has 2 senses
  1. pruning - something that has been pruned off of a plant
    --1 is a kind of
    cutting
  2. pruning - the act of trimming a plant
    --2 is a kind of
    trim, trimming, clipping
    Derived form: verb prune1
,Verb prune has 2 senses
  1. 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
    Derived forms: noun pruner1, noun pruner2, noun pruning2
    Sample sentence:
    They prune the trees
  2. 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
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