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chopped down

chopped down is the simple past and past participle of chop down.

Meaning of 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.

Questions about chopped down

What is chopped down the simple past and past participle of?
Chopped down is the simple past and past participle of chop down.

Words near chopped down in the dictionary

  1. choppable
  2. chopped
  3. chopped and changed
  4. chopped and screwed
  5. chopped beef
  6. chopped down
  7. chopped it up
  8. chopped liver
  9. chopped logic
  10. chopped off
  11. chopped out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chopped down (page history and authors); chop down (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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