| 单词 | lop |
| 释义 | lop (once / 3573 pages) v 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. WORD FAMILYlop: lopped, lopper, lopping, lops+/lopper: loppers USAGE EXAMPLESThe Florentines usually asserted their power over the local nobles by ordering them to lop off their towers. Seattle Times(Nov 29, 2016) So the sculptor lopped off more than 20 feet. Seattle Times(Nov 04, 2016) A hard Brexit could lop off £1.7 billion—equal to the combined current revenues of four of the biggest law firms. Economist(Sep 22, 2016) 1v cut off from a whole Syn|Hyper discerp, sever break up, sever set or keep apart cut separate with or as if with an instrument 2v cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of Syn|Hypo|Hyper clip, crop, cut back, dress, prune, snip, trim shear cut with shears poll, pollardconvert into a pollard pinch, topcut the top off disbudthin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers tailremove the stalk of fruits or berries thin out make sparse |
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