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cropped

/kɹɒpt/

cropped is the simple past and past participle of crop.

Adjective

cropped (comparative more cropped, superlative most cropped)

  1. Cut short; cut very short.
    • Her new look includes cropped hair and less makeup.
  2. Trimmed so as to exclude the periphery.
    • He supplied only a few cropped photos. I couldn't even tell where the photos were taken because they were so cropped.
  3. Having had crop plants grown on it.
    • Patches of cropped land and uncropped land were interspersed seemingly at random, but the explanation turned out to be related to crop rotation and irrigation choices.

Meaning of crop

Verb

crop (third-person singular simple present crops, present participle cropping, simple past and past participle cropped)

  1. (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
    • I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 17:22
  2. (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
  3. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
    • And the knave who refuses to drink till he fall, / Why the hangman shall crop him — ears, love-locks, and all.1890, George John Whyte-Melville, Holmby House: A Tale of Old Northamptonshire, page 92
  4. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
    • Reduce to six inches wide and crop to eight inches high.1924, Harry Appleton Groesbeck Jr., “Preparation of Copy”, in The Process and Practice of Photo-engraving, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, Indicating Sizes, page 234
  5. (intransitive) To yield harvest.
  6. (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
    • to crop a field

See all 24 meanings of crop

Forms of cropped

comparativemore cropped
superlativemost cropped

Origin of cropped

From crop.

Words formed from cropped

Phrases with cropped

Words that rhyme with cropped

Questions about cropped

What does cropped mean?
Cropped means cut short; cut very short.
What is cropped the simple past and past participle of?
Cropped is the simple past and past participle of crop.
What part of speech is cropped?
Cropped is an adjective.
How do you pronounce cropped?
Cropped is pronounced /kɹɒpt/.

Words near cropped in the dictionary

  1. cropout
  2. cropouts
  3. Cropp
  4. Croppa Creek
  5. croppable
  6. cropped
  7. cropped out
  8. cropped up
  9. cropper
  10. croppers
  11. croppest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cropped (page history and authors); crop (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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