Noun

• S: (n) pollard (a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage)
• S: (n) pollard (a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed)

Verb

• S: (v) poll, pollard (convert into a pollard) "pollard trees"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back (cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of) "dress the plants in the garden"
• S: (v) thin out (make sparse) "thin out the young plants"
• S: (v) reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, cut, bring down (cut down on; make a reduction in) "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
• S: (v) decrease, lessen, minify (make smaller) "He decreased his staff"
• S: (v) change, alter, modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation) "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame