prune

noun

The partially dried fruit of any of several varieties of the common plum, Prunus domestica.

noun

Any kind of plum that can be dried without spoiling.

noun

An ill-tempered, stupid, or incompetent person.

intransitive verb

To make a facial expression exhibiting ill temper or disgust.

intransitive verb

To cut off or remove dead or living parts or branches of (a plant, for example) to improve shape or growth.

intransitive verb

To remove or cut out as superfluous.

intransitive verb

To reduce.

intransitive verb

To remove what is superfluous or undesirable.

noun

A plum; in recent usage (especially in the western United States), a plum-suitable to be dried as a prune.