lop sth off
— phrasal verb with lop uk/lɒp/us/lɑːp/verb -pp-
(CUT)
to cut something off in one quick movement:
I'll need to lop off the lower branches of the tree.
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Forestry
- afforestation
- arborist
- brushwood
- copse
- cut sth down
- fell
- flitch
- forested
- forester
- glade
- grove
- jungle
- logger
- logging
- logjam
- old growth
- spinney
- the timberline
- tree-lined
- wooded
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Cutting off and disconnecting
(REDUCE)
informal to reduce a price or the amount of time taken to do something by a particular amount:
He lopped eight seconds off the record.
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Becoming and making smaller or less
- a nip (here) and a tuck (there) idiom
- attenuate
- axe
- bite
- bite into sth
- dive
- drain
- let sth down
- let up
- lower
- make a hole in sth idiom
- miniaturization
- minimize
- shrink
- slash
- step sth down
- strip sth away
- stripped down
- subside
- tail off
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