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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Prune \Prune\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pruned; p. pr. & vb. n. Pruning.] [OE. proine, probably fr. F. provigner to lay down vine stocks for propagation; hence, probably, the meaning, to cut away superfluous shoots. See Provine.] 1. To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] Taking into consideration how they [laws] are to be pruned and reformed. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Our delightful task To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. To cut off or cut out, as useless parts. [1913 Webster] Horace will our superfluous branches prune. --Waller. [1913 Webster] 3. To preen; to prepare; to dress. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] His royal bird Prunes the immortal wing and cloys his beak. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

58 Moby Thesaurus words for "pruned": Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bobbed, brief, brusque, capsule, capsulized, clipped, close, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, cropped, curt, curtailed, cut, cut short, digested, docked, elided, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, laconic, mowed, mown, nipped, pithy, pointed, pollard, polled, reaped, reserved, sententious, shaved, sheared, short, short and sweet, short-cut, shortened, snub, snubbed, succinct, summary, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, to the point, trimmed, truncated