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• n  dried plum
• v  cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
• v  weed out unwanted or unnecessary things

• Callen's version of pounti, the prune-and-ham pie from France's Auvergne, for example, differs in important respects from Anne Willan's formulation, and both are worth trying.
• Art Bonifas, near the end of his tour, took a group out one day in 1976 to prune a poplar in the DMZ; the North Koreans set upon them and killed him.
• Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard and gather in the fruit thereof;But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the.

• snip
• clip
• crop
• trim
• lop
• dress
• cut back
• cut
• rationalize
• rationalise

News & Articles

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• California Prunes Benefit Digestive Health Says European Food Standards Agency
  LONDON, June 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Eating prunes is officially beneficial for digestive health confirms the EU Commission in a final authorisation ruling today [ 1 ] . Prunes are now the only natural, ...
  June 12, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Police seek information about newborn's death; arborists teach pruning class: North Portland news
  Plus you can learn how to prune street trees tonight at Patton Square Park, 5400 North Interstate Avenue.
  June 11, 2013 - The Oregonian
• Schick® Quattro for Women® TrimStyle® Partners with Celebrity Stylist Rachael Russell & Style Saves for Prune for June
  Schick® Quattro for Women® TrimStyle®, the only razor and bikini trimmer in one, launches the Prune for June Summer Style Contest on http://PruneforJune.com . To help promote the contest, Schick Quattro for Women has partnered with Style Saves and celebrity fashion stylist Rachael Russell. (PRWeb June 10, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10808534.htm
  June 10, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Stephen Colbert in Toronto Star
  America needs prunes. It may not be a young, sexy plum. Granted, it's shrivelled and at times hard to swallow. But this dried-up old prune has the experience we need,Colbert said.
• Patrick Duffy in CNN
  Larry and I will have a bowl of Mueslix and a small shot of prune juice and be in bed by 9 o'clock,Duffy, who played Bobby Ewing, told the newspaper. "We'll let people file by the bed and watch us go to sleep. I think we can hang with the...
• Terry Lundgren in International Herald Tribune
  Macy's said Thursday that it would close 11 stores, though its chief executive, Terry Lundgren, said in a statement that the closings were "part of our normal-course process to prune underperforming locations each year."