verb
ADVERB
▪ drastically , hard ( esp. BrE ), heavily , severely
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Prune the trees hard in the winter.
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Their budgets have been drastically ~d. ( figurative )
▪ back
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The roses had been ~d back more severely.
Prune is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ branch , ↑ bush , ↑ shrub , ↑ stem , ↑ tree