英语词汇“pruning”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

pruneprune1 /prun/ verb [transitive]

ETYMOLOGYprune¹

Origin: 1300-1400 Old French proignier, probably from provigner to breed plants from shoots, from Latin propago; ➔ PROPAGATE

VERB TABLE

prune

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	prune
	he, she, it	prunes
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	pruned
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have pruned
	he, she, it	has pruned
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had pruned
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will prune
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have pruned

Continuous Form
Present	I	am pruning
	he, she, it	is pruning
	you, we, they	are pruning
Past	I, he, she, it	was pruning
	you, we, they	were pruning
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been pruning
	he, she, it	has been pruning
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been pruning
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be pruning
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been pruning

1 (also prune something ↔ back) to cut some of the branches of a tree or bush to make it grow better: Red dogwoods should be pruned regularly.2to get rid of the unnecessary parts of something: The state has pruned $275 million from this year’s budget.—pruning noun [uncountable]