They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again.
Source: tatoeba (522428)
Pruning
/ˈpɹuːnɪŋ/
Synonyms for "pruning" (50 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (25)
Noun(19 words)
jettisoningleaf trimmingloploppingpruning toolsremovescythingseveringshapeshapingshorteningstreamliningstubbingthin outthinningtrimtrimmingtruncatingunword the sentence
Verb(2 words)
remove itemsremove object from dataset
Related word relations
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More general
13 entriesMore specific
16 entriesalgorithm pruningbranch pruningbush pruningdata pruningfeature pruningfruit tree pruninghedge pruningplan pruningpruning knifepruning sawpruning shearsroot pruningtext pruningtree pruningtree trimmingweight pruning
Collocations
14 entriesfruit tree pruninghedge pruningprune back branchesprune dataprune hedgesprune treespruning knifepruning methodpruning planpruning schedulepruning shearspruning techniquepruning toolseasonal pruning
Inflections
6 entriesDerivations
3 entriesTranslations
16 translations across 12 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- poda noun (action of pruning)
Czech
1 entries- prořezávání noun (action of pruning)
Galician
1 entries- poda noun (action of pruning)
German
1 entries- reduzieren noun (action of pruning)
Greek
1 entries- κλάδεμα noun (action of pruning)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- beskjæring noun (action of pruning)
Portuguese
1 entries- poda noun (action of pruning)
Russian
2 entries- обрезка растений noun (action of pruning)
- проре́живание noun (action of pruning)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- orezivanje noun (action of pruning)
Spanish
4 entries- poda noun (action of pruning)
- podada noun (action of pruning)
- podadura noun (action of pruning)
- podazón noun (action of pruning)
Swedish
1 entries- beskärning noun (action of pruning)
Tagalog
1 entries- hitatag noun (action of pruning)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Tom is pruning the trees.
Source: tatoeba (1662755)
I am pruning the pear trees.
Source: tatoeba (1665824)
Tell her that I am pruning the trees.
Source: tatoeba (1741601)
Showing 4 of 10 available sentences.