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reprune

reprune verb: to prune again or anew.

Verb

reprune (third-person singular simple present reprunes, present participle repruning, simple past and past participle repruned)

  1. (transitive) To prune again or anew.
    • Yet soon reprunes her wing to soar anew.1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Ninth and Last. The Consolation. Containing, among Other Things, I. A Moral Survey of the Nocturnal Heavens. II. A Night-address to the Deity. To which are Annex’d...

Forms of reprune

third-person singular presentreprunes
present participlerepruning
past participlerepruned
pastrepruned

Origin of reprune

From re- + prune.

Questions about reprune

What does reprune mean?
Reprune means to prune again or anew.
What part of speech is reprune?
Reprune is a verb.
What is the past tense of reprune?
The past tense of reprune is repruned.

Words near reprune in the dictionary

  1. reprovocation
  2. reprovoke
  3. reprovoked
  4. reprovokes
  5. reprovoking
  6. reprune
  7. repruned
  8. reprunes
  9. repruning
  10. repryve
  11. repryved

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