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    CHOP OFF

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Remove by or as if by cuttingplay

    Example:

    lop off the dead branch

    Synonyms:

    chop off; cut off; lop off

    Classified under:

    Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

    Hypernyms (to "chop off" is one way to...):

    come away; come off; detach (come to be detached)

    Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "chop off"):

    abscise (remove or separate by abscission)

    roach (cut the mane off (a horse))

    Sentence frames:

    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s something PP

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