LOP (lopped, lopping)

Pronunciation (US):

• LOP (verb)
  The verb LOP has 2 senses:

1. cut off from a whole
2. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

  Familiarity information: LOP used as a verb is rare.

• LOP (verb)

Meaning:

Cut off from a whole

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lop; discerp; sever

Context examples:

His head was severed from his body / The soul discerped from the body

Hypernyms (to "lop" is one way to...):

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Meaning:

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

prune; snip; lop; cut back; clip; crop; trim; dress

Context example:

dress the plants in the garden

Hypernyms (to "lop" is one way to...):

thin out (make sparse)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "lop"):

shear (cut with shears)

poll; pollard (convert into a pollard)

pinch; top (cut the top off)

disbud (thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They lop the trees