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DISBUD
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Irregular inflected forms: disbudded , disbudding
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they disbud ... he / she / it disbuds
Past simple: disbudded
Past participle: disbudded
-ing form: disbudding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Destroy undeveloped horn buds (of cattle)
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "disbud" is one way to...):
dehorn (take the horns off (an animal))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "disbud" is one way to...):
clip; crop; cut back; dress; lop; prune; snip; trim (cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
