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1. Dried plum

1. Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
   "prune the plants in the garden";
   - snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, cut back
    
2. Weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
   - cut, rationalize, rationalise [Brit]

Derived forms: pruned, prunes, pruning

See also: curtail, cut out, trim down

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

Encyclopedia: Prune