Past tense of lop
regular verb
The past tense of lop is lopped. The past participle is also lopped.
Forms of lop
| Base form (V1) | lop /lɒp/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | lopped |
| Past participle (V3) | lopped |
| Present participle | lopping /ˈlɒpɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | lops |
Lopped in a sentence
- Remember the eastern leg of HS2 being lopped back to the East Midlands?2024 February 7, Andrew McNaughton, “HS2: a truncated route cuts off city lifelines”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 47. From the entry synergy
- TPE's Manchester Airport-Newcastle has both ends lopped off to become Manchester Victoria-York.2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 52. From the entry lop off
- Experts with saws and ladders came and lopped off the lower branches.1944, Emily Carr, “Life Loves Living”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry umbrella
- Trees when lopped were dodded and became doddards.1955, Ivor Brown, Chosen Words, London: Jonathan Cape, […], page 179. From the entry doddard
- The power company had lopped off the tops of the trees along the road, and they stood betopped, blunted, like a child's drawing of trees.2012, John Colman Wood, The Names of Things. From the entry betop
Meaning of lop
- verb 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.
- verb To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
- verb To allow to hang down.
Questions about the past tense of lop
- What is the past tense of lop?
- The past tense of lop is lopped.
- What is the past participle of lop?
- The past participle of lop is lopped.
- Is lop a regular or irregular verb?
- Lop is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lop (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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