lop
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
lop
v 1: cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body";
"The soul discerped from the body" [syn: {discerp},
{sever}, {lop}]
2: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the
plants in the garden" [syn: {snip}, {clip}, {crop}, {trim},
{lop}, {dress}, {prune}, {cut back}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lop \Lop\ (l[o^]p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lopped}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Lopping}.] [Prov. G. luppen, lubben, to cut, geld, or OD.
luppen, D. lubben.]
1. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to
shorten by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or
remove, as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its
branches. "With branches lopped, in wood or mountain
felled." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
Expunge the whole, or lop the excrescent parts.
--Pope.
[1913 Webster]
2. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a
hedge.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "lop":
abscind, amputate, annihilate, bag, bagging, baggy, ballooning,
ban, bar, bob, bounce, bound, cascade, clip, crop, cull, cut,
cut away, cut off, cut out, daggle, dangle, depend, dock, drabble,
drag, draggle, drape, droop, drooping, droopy, eliminate,
enucleate, eradicate, except, excise, exclude, extinguish,
extirpate, fall, flap, flop, floppy, flow, hang, hang down, hop,
hurdle, isolate, knock off, leap, limp, loll, lollop, loose,
lop-eared, loppy, mutilate, nip, nod, nodding, pare, peel, pend,
pick out, prune, root out, rule out, sag, sagging,
sagging in folds, saggy, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, slump,
spring, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, swag, swing,
take off, take out, trail, trollop, truncate, vault, weep,
wipe out
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