In general,dead or living parts of plants need to be removed to improve the shape or growth of the plant.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

There seemed to be no end to the demand for men to fill the places left empty by dead and wounded soldiers.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Faulkner resisted. He said,if you grow a vegetable, you can cut it to look like something else, but it will be dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

If the Jordan River is saved,they say, then the Dead Sea could also be brought back to life.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Hero's family decides to make Claudio believe that she is dead until her innocence can be proved.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

When he goes to a funeral, he wants to be the dead man."

VOA: special.2010.08.12

It is rather for us,the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that,from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain;

VOA: special.2011.02.07

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain that this nation,under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people,for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

VOA: special.2009.11.12

About one quarter of the presumed dead are still considered missing persons, never to be heard from again.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Most of the dead and wounded are said to be civilians who had recently returned to the capital after Ethiopian troops withdrew from Somalia in January.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

(SINGING) A few hours later, Mass was celebrated at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, believed to be the site where Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

But now that he's dead,I got to be the captain.

VOA: standard.other

"They have also shown how bacterial ribosomes can be stopped dead in their tracks by various antibiotics, thereby providing insights that help researchers design new drugs to be used in our never-ending fight against bacterial infections,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.07