What is another word for pruning?
Pronunciation:
[ pɹˈuːnɪŋ], [ pɹˈuːnɪŋ], [ p_ɹ_ˈuː_n_ɪ_ŋ]
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Synonyms for Pruning:
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n.
• act • trimming -
v.
• diminishing- Abbreviating ,
- Abridging ,
- Bobbing ,
- Compacting ,
- Concentrating ,
- Cropping ,
- Culling ,
- Curtailing ,
- Depleting ,
- Truncating ,
- Weeding ,
- compressing ,
- condensing ,
- contracting ,
- decreasing ,
- decrementing ,
- deflating ,
- diminishing ,
- downgrading ,
- draining ,
- dwindling ,
- eroding ,
- lessening ,
- lightening ,
- minimizing ,
- nipping ,
- paring ,
- reducing ,
- shaving ,
- shearing ,
- shortening ,
- shrinking ,
- tapering .
Other synonyms:
Other relevant words:
- Adorning ,
- Apologizing ,
- Bistoury ,
- Ceasing ,
- Chopping ,
- Cultivating ,
- Currying ,
- Decorating ,
- Diluting ,
- Drawing knife ,
- Eliminating ,
- Excusing ,
- Foreshortening ,
- Garnishing ,
- Hacking ,
- Hoeing ,
- Ignoring ,
- Justifying ,
- Leavings ,
- Loping ,
- Lopping ,
- Manicuring ,
- Pasturing ,
- Perforator ,
- Pinching ,
- Pluming ,
- Pollarding ,
- Polling ,
- Preening ,
- Reaping ,
- Retrenching ,
- Sheering ,
- Skimping ,
- Skipping ,
- Sniping ,
- Snubbing ,
- Styling ,
- Trending ,
- Trotting ,
- abbreviation ,
- adze ,
- apologising ,
- arms ,
- arranging ,
- ax ,
- billhook ,
- blade ,
- blow ,
- bodkin ,
- body height ,
- bowie knife ,
- browsing ,
- buckle ,
- bushwhacker ,
- cartridge ,
- chisel ,
- clasp ,
- cleaver ,
- clip ,
- clippers ,
- coal face ,
- coiffure ,
- colter ,
- contraction ,
- coulter ,
- crop ,
- cultivation ,
- culture ,
- curbing ,
- curving ,
- cut back ,
- cutlery ,
- cutter ,
- cutters ,
- cutting edge ,
- disregarding ,
- dress ,
- dressing ,
- edge tool ,
- editing ,
- electric razor ,
- eliminate ,
- elision ,
- ellipsis ,
- fastener ,
- gill ,
- grain size ,
- grazing ,
- grooming ,
- guillotine ,
- habilitating ,
- haircut ,
- hairstyle ,
- hatchet ,
- issuing ,
- jogging ,
- lancet ,
- listing ,
- lop ,
- mag ,
- mattock ,
- mei ,
- microtome ,
- nail clipper ,
- paper cutter ,
- paring knife ,
- penknife ,
- pick ,
- pickax ,
- pin ,
- plowshare ,
- plumbing ,
- primping ,
- prune ,
- pruner ,
- prunes ,
- ranging ,
- rationalising ,
- rationalizing ,
- razor ,
- razor blade ,
- remainder ,
- restricting ,
- run away ,
- safety razor ,
- scalpel ,
- scissors ,
- scythe ,
- severing ,
- sickle ,
- slewing ,
- snip ,
- snipping ,
- stinting ,
- stopping ,
- straight razor ,
- swerving ,
- sword ,
- syncope ,
- tailoring ,
- thinning ,
- thinning out ,
- togging ,
- topping ,
- trim ,
- truncation ,
- veering ,
- waste ,
- wedge ,
- whittle ,
- wire cutters ,
- working .
How to use "Pruning" in context?
Pruning is an important and necessary gardening activity. Proper pruning can help to shape and canopy your plants, and direct their energy where it is needed most. These are the three most common reasons for pruning:
1. To direct the growth of branches and plants to produce the shape, size, and structure you desire.
2. To remove dead, diseased, or damaged limbs, branches, and twigs.
3. To open up the plant so that more light can reach its lower parts and root system.
Paraphrases for Pruning:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Forward Entailment
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Proper noun, singular
trimming.
-
Noun, singular or mass
trimming.
-
Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
cutout, reduction, restructuring.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
curtailment, cutback, rationalisation, reorganisation.
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Verb, gerund or present participle
trimming.
-
Noun, singular or mass
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