"chop down" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-chop down.ogg [Australia] Forms: chop downs [present, singular, third-person], chop downing [participle, present], chop downed [participle, past], chop downed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} chop down (third-person singular simple present chop downs, present participle chop downing, simple past and past participle chop downed)
  1. (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chop, down. Tags: transitive Translations (chop down a tree): зруба́ти (zrubáty) [perfective] (Ukrainian), зру́бувати (zrúbuvaty) [imperfective] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-chop_down-en-verb-DdZeYWtr Disambiguation of 'chop down a tree': 100 0
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To curtail, shorten Tags: idiomatic, transitive
    Sense id: en-chop_down-en-verb-qQ~CJ4Fe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (down) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (down): 27 73

Inflected forms

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