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underpruning

underpruning is the present participle and gerund of underprune.

Meaning of underprune

Verb

underprune (third-person singular simple present underprunes, present participle underpruning, simple past and past participle underpruned)

  1. (transitive) To prune insufficiently.
    Antonyms:
    overprune

Questions about underpruning

What is underpruning the present participle and gerund of?
Underpruning is the present participle and gerund of underprune.

Words near underpruning in the dictionary

  1. underprovisioning
  2. underprovisions
  3. underprune
  4. underpruned
  5. underprunes
  6. underpruning
  7. underpublicized
  8. underpublished
  9. underpull
  10. underpulled
  11. underpuller

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Adapted from Wiktionary: underpruning (page history and authors); underprune (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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