bonsaiing

Verb

bonsai (third-person singular simple present bonsais, present participle bonsaiing, simple past and past participle bonsaied)

1. (transitive) To make into a bonsai by restricting the roots and pruning.
   • Could I be a father who was, so to speak, bonsaiing his children, trimming urban roots, and then twisting the emerging branches?2001, Dennis Parks, Living in the Country Growing Weird, page 50

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