lopsomethingoff
phrasal verbwithlopverbuk/lɒp/us/lɑːp/-pp-
(CUT)
tocutsomething off in onequickmovement:
I'll need to lop off thelowerbranchesof thetree.
Forestry
- afforestation
- agroforestry
- arborist
- brush
- cut down
- deforest
- deforestation
- disafforest
- logging
- lumberman
- old growth
- ranger
- reafforest
- reafforestation
- slash-and-burn
- the treeline
- tree-lined
- undercut
- woodcutter
- woody
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Cutting off and disconnecting
(REDUCE)
informal
toreduceapriceor theamountoftimetaken to do something by aparticularamount:
He lopped eightsecondsoff therecord.
Becoming and making smaller or less
- abridgment
- attenuate
- attenuated
- attenuating
- attenuation
- boil
- damp
- falling
- falling-off
- foreshorten
- foreshortened
- go through the flooridiom
- haircut
- runsomeone/somethingdown
- rundown
- sag
- salami slicing
- scalesomethingdown
- shave
- telescope