lop
Other forms: lopped; lopping; lops
To lop is to cut a chunk of something off. You could lop off your long hair, or lop off the top of a Christmas tree to make it fit in your living room.
You can physically lop things, like when you lop the brown branches off of your ailing rose bush or lop off the bottoms of your jeans to make shorts. There is a figurative way to lop too, as when an editor decides to lop the ending off a story. Or, if you choose to drive to work instead of riding your bike, you can lop an hour off the time it takes to get there.
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cut off from a whole
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cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
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types:
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shear
cut with shears
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poll, pollard
convert into a pollard
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pinch, top
cut the top off
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disbud
thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers
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tail
remove the stalk of fruits or berries
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type of:
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thin out
make sparse
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Vocabulary lists containing lop
After a Roman general captures a queen and kills her son, she embarks on a violent quest for revenge.
King Henry IV contends with unrest on England's borders, a group of rebellious noblemen, and his unruly son.
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