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chops down

chops down is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 chops down

What is chops down the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Chops down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of chop down.

Words near chops down in the dictionary

  1. choppy-changey
  2. Chopra
  3. Chopras
  4. chops
  5. chops and changes
  6. chops down
  7. chops it up
  8. chops off
  9. chops out
  10. chops up
  11. chopse

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