prune
/pɹun/ verb C2- To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water.
He/she/it prunes · Past pruned · Past participle pruned · -ing form pruning
Verb forms
- Base form
- prune
- He/she/it
- prunes
- Past
- pruned
- Past participle
- pruned
- -ing form
- pruning
From the library
I’m only just pruned down and branched out.
“Those are indeed holidays to me; I go into the garden, I plant, I prune, I trim, I kill the insects all day long.”
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