Prunes [verb]
Definition of Prunes:
trim; cut short
Synonyms of Prunes:
● Shave
● Cut back
● Shorten
● Shear
● Snip
● Clip
● Reduce
● Shape
● Dock
● Lop
● Gut
● Exclude
● Thin
● Skive
Sentence/Example of Prunes:
I might fertilize him, I might prune him, and I might use insecticide on him.
The one great work that a vinedresser has to do for the branch every year is to prune it.
Then, how I would toil, toil, prune and expand his feeble ideas!
He meant at least to prune the orchard and maybe set out dwarfs.
Nourish your idea plants that have been starved; prune your word plants.
Considered from every standpoint, March and April are quite the best months in which to prune.
Mulberry-colour, much like that we call plum-colour or prune.
Prune off all dead wood, and all the little twigs on the main limbs.
He must put his legs up on the sofa; and he must have a glass of prune brandy too.
To cut or prune gooseberry and currant-trees is very simple.