Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to prune
Participle: pruned
Gerund: pruning
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | prune |
| you | prune |
| he;she;it | prunes |
| we | prune |
| you | prune |
| they | prune |
Perfect
| I | have pruned |
| you | have pruned |
| he;she;it | has pruned |
| we | have pruned |
| you | have pruned |
| they | have pruned |
Past
| I | pruned |
| you | pruned |
| he;she;it | pruned |
| we | pruned |
| you | pruned |
| they | pruned |
Pluperfect
| I | had pruned |
| you | had pruned |
| he;she;it | had pruned |
| we | had pruned |
| you | had pruned |
| they | had pruned |
Future
| I | will prune |
| you | will prune |
| he;she;it | will prune |
| we | will prune |
| you | will prune |
| they | will prune |
Future Perfect
| I | will have pruned |
| you | will have pruned |
| he;she;it | will have pruned |
| we | will have pruned |
| you | will have pruned |
| they | will have pruned |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | prune |
| you | prune |
| he;she;it | prune |
| we | prune |
| you | prune |
| they | prune |
Perfect
| I | have pruned |
| you | have pruned |
| he;she;it | have pruned |
| we | have pruned |
| you | have pruned |
| they | have pruned |
Imperfect
| I | pruned |
| you | pruned |
| he;she;it | pruned |
| we | pruned |
| you | pruned |
| they | pruned |
Pluperfect
| I | had pruned |
| you | had pruned |
| he;she;it | had pruned |
| we | had pruned |
| you | had pruned |
| they | had pruned |
Conditional
Present
| I | would prune |
| you | would prune |
| he;she;it | would prune |
| we | would prune |
| you | would prune |
| they | would prune |
Perfect
| I | would have pruned |
| you | would have pruned |
| he;she;it | would have pruned |
| we | would have pruned |
| you | would have pruned |
| they | would have pruned |
Imperative
| you | prune |
| we | Let's prune |
| you | prune |
Verbs conjugated like 'prune'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'prune'
brine,
brunt,
brute,
crane,
crunk,
drone,
frine,
grane,
grone,
grue,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to make shorter
- abbreviate, abridge, chop off, compress, condense, curt, curtail, lop off, make shorter, pare, reduce in length, shorten, trim, truncate
- shear
- trim, clip, cut, crop, truncate, nip, snip
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English prune, from Old French prune, from Vulgar Latin *prūna, feminine singular formed from the neutral plural of Latin prūnum, from Ancient Greek προῦνον (proûnon), variant of προῦμνον (proûmnon, “plum”), a loanword from a language of Asia Minor. Doublet of plum.
Sample Sentences
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I hardly left that spot in my pool that month even when my fingers pruned and chlorine dried out my skin. [2005, Alycia Ripley, Traveling with an Eggplant, page 111:]