lop
1. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- dress the plants in the garden
• Syn:
snip, clip, crop, trim, dress,
prune, cut back
• Derivationally related forms:
pruner (for: prune), pruning (for: prune), lopper, trim (for: trim), trimmer (for: trim), trimming (for: trim), crop (for: crop), clip (for: clip), clipper (for: clip), clipping (for: clip), snip (for: snip)
• Hypernyms:
thin out
• Hyponyms:
shear, poll, pollard, top, pinch, disbud
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- They lop the trees
2. cut off from a whole
- His head was severed from his body
- The soul discerped from the body
• Syn:
discerp, sever
• Derivationally related forms:
lopper, severing (for: sever), severance (for: sever)
• Hypernyms:
cut
• Verb Group:
sever, break up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
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