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pruning
[ proo-ning ]
noun
- the act or practice of cutting or lopping off undesired twigs, branches, or roots:
Some pruning of your tea roses during the summer is useful to encourage growth and flowers.
- the act or practice of getting rid of undesirable elements or excess:
You can do this pruning of emails for an hour a day till you're down to an empty inbox.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pruning1
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Example Sentences
Lawmaking by legislatures is also a one-way ratchet—Legislators get credit for passing laws, not pruning them.
Pruning them, Peterson explains, is a science and a dying art.
He enthusiastically showed off his pruning technique for me and lunch with him was required.
Each one represents the endpoint of a long process of winnowing, pruning and perfecting, driven entirely by the market.
I had a couple of bulletins on pruning in my pocket, with pictures of old trees remorselessly headed down.
That afternoon I went back to my orchard, got out my shiny and sharp new double-edged pruning saw, and sawed till both arms ached.
But our old trees, in spite of (or perhaps because of) my spring pruning, were doing fairly well.
The trees were now beginning to show the good result of pruning and a regular irrigation.
She was pruning a rose-bush with Bub's penknife, and when she heard him coming she wheeled, quivering.
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