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# prune

«prune» in Mova's school dictionary: **a dried plum, dark and wrinkly, eaten as a snack or cooked** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a prune, prunes); verb (prune, prunes, pruned, pruning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A prune is a dried plum, dark and wrinkly, eaten as a snack or cooked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prune/#m1)

2) (verb) To prune a tree or bush is to cut off some branches so it grows better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prune/#m2)

3) (verb) To prune something is to cut out parts you do not need, such as words in a story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prune/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In gardening and science lessons pruning helps plants grow healthy; in everyday life prunes are a food said to help digestion; in English lessons pupils prune long sentences. Phrases: prune the roses, prune juice, fingers like prunes.

### examples

- Grandpa likes prunes with his breakfast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prune/#x1)
- We pruned the apple tree in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prune/#x2)
- Prunes are dried plums. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prune/#x3)
- After the bath my fingers looked like prunes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prune/#x4)
- Prune your story so it is not too long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prune/#x5)
- Dad pruned the hedge with shears. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prune/#x6)

### note

Countable for the fruit (prunes). Verb past form: pruned. In some languages «prune» means a fresh plum (French «prune»); in English it is a dried one — a false friend.

### In the corpora

- [Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the produce thereof.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.736/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «prune» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/prune/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.