prune

kuivattu luumu

karsia

vesoa, oksia puhekieltä A plum.
The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
puhekieltä An old woman, especially a wrinkly one.
puhekieltä To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive.

A good grape grower will prune the vines once a year.

Our delightful task / To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers.

to prune a budget, or an essay

taking into consideration how they laws are to be pruned and reformed

His royal bird / Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak.

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I hardly left that spot in my pool that month even when my fingers pruned and chlorine dried out my skin.