prune

1. 1.

   dried plum

   Broaderdried fruit

Other forms of prune

plural

prunes·

past tense

pruned·

present participle

pruning·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prune

What does prune mean?

prune means "cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prune?

prune has 1 syllable: prune. In IPA it is /ˈpɹun/.

What is another word for prune?

Close synonyms include snip, clip, crop, trim, lop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prune a common word?

prune is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.