Past tense of prune
regular verb
The past tense of prune is pruned. The past participle is also pruned.
Forms of prune
| Base form (V1) | prune /pɹuːn/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | pruned /pɹuːnd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | pruned /pɹuːnd/ |
| Present participle | pruning /ˈpɹuːnɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | prunes /pɹuːnz/ |
Pruned in a sentence
- I hardly left that spot in my pool that month even when my fingers pruned and chlorine dried out my skin.2005, Alycia Ripley, Traveling with an Eggplant, page 111
- When internal dissension and a decline in popularity set in, Johnny was pruned from the Crests.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 229
- The hybrid perpetual roses as a rule require to be pruned to within 4 to 6 inches of the ground.From the entry perpetual
- The trees were overfruited and needed to be pruned.From the entry overfruited
- The shrub was too branchy. It needed to be pruned so it would have a few strong shoots instead of many weak ones.From the entry branchy
Meaning of prune
- noun A plum.
- noun The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
- noun Something wrinkly like a prune.
Questions about the past tense of prune
- What is the past tense of prune?
- The past tense of prune is pruned.
- What is the past participle of prune?
- The past participle of prune is pruned.
- Is prune a regular or irregular verb?
- Prune is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: prune (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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