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re- +‎ prune

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

  1. (transitive) To prune again or 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, London: [] , →OCLC:
      Yet soon reprunes her wing to soar anew.

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