Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pruning

2 senses of pruning

Sense 1
pruning -- (something that has been pruned off of a plant)
       => cutting -- (a piece cut off from the main part of something)

Sense 2
pruning -- (the act of trimming a plant)
       => trim, trimming, clipping -- (cutting down to the desired size or shape)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb prune

2 senses of prune

Sense 1
snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back -- (cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden")
       => thin out -- (make sparse; "thin out the young plants")

Sense 2
cut, prune, rationalize, rationalise -- (weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet")
       => extinguish, eliminate, get rid of, do away with -- (terminate, end, or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"; "Socialism extinguished these archaic customs"; "eliminate my debts")