prune• One of the most important discriminators between plums and prunes is what their age means to them.• Besides, it has prunes in it, did you know that?• Deep lines grooved her prune of a face.• Put the prunes in an earthenwareovendish, with the wine and enough water to cover them.• An image that captures the dichotomy of possibilities in getting older is the plum versus the prune.• The prunes were good but with three extrastones in the juice Christopher wondered who might have been there before him.
Originprune1
(1300-1400)Old Frenchproignier, probably from provigner“to breed plants from shoots”, from Latinpropago; → PROPAGATE
ADVERB➤drastically, hard, heavily, severely大幅修剪;狠狠地修剪;大量削減◇Prune the trees hard in the winter.在冬天將樹木做大幅度修剪。◇Their budgets have been drastically pruned. (figurative) 他們的預算遭到了大幅削減。➤back剪去◇The roses had been pruned back more severely.玫瑰被剪掉了一大截。