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tower, poisoned our lungs and rasped our nostrils with a
pestilential, nauseating smell. — The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told;
• (nauseate)- to cause to feel extreme disgust, ( ; ); The
heat and the smell and the surging motion began to nauseate Stella. — Big
Timber A Story of the Northwest;
prune = clip = crop = trim = snip = lop ~ cull = pluck {gustiness = guts}
• (prune)- to cut or lop off (twigs, branches, or roots), ( ,
); The desire to prune, compress, overcharge, was a torment to the
nervous woman writing under a sharp necessity for payment. — Complete
Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith;
• (clip)- to cut, or cut off or out, as with shears; to clip a rose from a bush;
• (crop)- to cut off or remove the head or top of (a plant, grass, etc.);
• (trim)- to put into a neat or orderly condition by clipping, paring, pruning,
etc., ( , ); But at length we came to a trim-built bark
lying off Redriff Stairs, with the words "Betsy, of London," painted across her
stern. — Richard Carvel;
• (snip)- to cut with small, quick strokes, ( );
• (lop)- to cut off (a part), especially from a tree or shrub; I'm going to have
to lop some of them so will get sun in the afternoons now it's an shaded. —
Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin;
• (cull)- to choose; select; pick out, ( , , ,
); The
information culled will be kept anonymous;
• (pluck)- to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers,
feathers, etc., ( , , );
• courage or resolution in the face of difficulties, ( , , );
He is full of courage, pluck, and determination, and so is an enemy to be
dreaded. — Tom, The Bootblack or, The Road to Success;
• (gusty)- vigorous; hearty; zestful;
• (guts)- fortitude and determination; He struck me as a man without guts, as
a zero, as a wimp, as someone who wasn't even bright except in an academic
sense. — Destination Brain;
prune : abscission : amputate : truncate : whittle : hew : dismember :
curtail : abstract : abridge : abbreviate # protract = prolong
• (abscission)- the act of cutting off; sudden termination, separation; A main
wave of flower abscission occurs shortly after anthesis while the
carbohydrate reserves in the tree are high;
• (amputate)- cut off part of body, ( -