reprune

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verb

To prune again or anew.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person reprunes · participle present repruning · participle past repruned · past repruned

  1. transitiveTo 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, Some Thoughts, Occasioned by the Present Juncture: […]”, in [The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality], London: […] G[eorge] Hawkins, […]; [a]nd sold by M[ary] Cooper, […], →OCLC

Origin

From re- + prune.

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APA

reprune. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reprune

MLA

“reprune.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reprune. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reprune,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reprune.

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