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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 participlepruning /ˈpɹuːnɪŋ/
Third person singularprunes /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

  1. noun A plum.
  2. noun The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum.
  3. noun Something wrinkly like a prune.

Full definition of 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.

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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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