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LOP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: lopped    , lopping   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

Example:

dress the plants in the garden

Synonyms:

clip; crop; cut back; dress; lop; prune; snip; trim

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "lop" is one way to...):

thin out (make sparse)

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

shear (cut with shears)

poll; pollard (convert into a pollard)

pinch; top (cut the top off)

disbud (thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They lop the trees

Derivation:

lopper (a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cut off from a whole

Example:

The soul discerped from the body

Synonyms:

discerp; lop; sever

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "lop" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Verb group:

break up; sever (set or keep apart)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

lopper (a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees)

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