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lopping off

lopping off is the present participle and gerund of lop off.

Meaning of lop off

Verb

lop off (third-person singular simple present lops off, present participle lopping off, simple past and past participle lopped off)

  1. (transitive) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
    • Sinkfield reduced his guests to myopic drunkenness one evening, induced them to bring forward their maps and charts, lop off a little here, add a bit there, and adjust the center of the county to meet his requirements. He sent them packing next day armed with their charts and five quarts of shinny...1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    snead

Questions about lopping off

What is lopping off the present participle and gerund of?
Lopping off is the present participle and gerund of lop off.

Words near lopping off in the dictionary

  1. loppers
  2. loppet
  3. loppets
  4. loppiness
  5. lopping
  6. lopping off
  7. loppings
  8. Lopps
  9. loppy
  10. loprazolam
  11. Lopresti

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