1. Dried plum
   "She added prunes to her morning oatmeal for extra fibre"
    
2. [informal] (dated) a disagreeable or foolish person
   "Don't be such a prune about the party"
    
3. An act of pruning
   "The shrubs need a good prune before winter"

1. Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
   "prune the plants in the garden";
   - snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, cut back
    
2. Remove unnecessary or unwanted parts to improve efficiency or effectiveness
   "They pruned the budget to reduce costs";
   - cut, rationalize, rationalise [Brit]

Derived forms: prunes, pruning, pruned

Type of: do away with, dried fruit, eliminate, extinguish, get rid of, thin out

Encyclopedia: Prune