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chop down

chop down verb: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chop, down.

Verb

chop down (third-person singular simple present chops down, present participle chopping down, simple past and past participle chopped down)

  1. (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chop, down.
    • chop down a tree
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To curtail, shorten
    • In the final edit, the film was chopped down to two hours.
  3. (dated, slang, transitive) To attack (someone) with a knife; to kill (someone), especially by shooting with an automatic weapon.

Forms of chop down

third-person singular presentchops down
present participlechopping down
past participlechopped down
pastchopped down

Questions about chop down

What does chop down mean?
Chop down means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chop, down.
What part of speech is chop down?
Chop down is a verb.
What is the past tense of chop down?
The past tense of chop down is chopped down.

Words near chop down in the dictionary

  1. chop chords
  2. chop cup
  3. chop cups
  4. chop dollar
  5. chop dollars
  6. chop down
  7. chop house
  8. chop houses
  9. chop it up
  10. chop logic
  11. chop logics

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