chop down
English
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Verb
editchop down (third-person singular simple present chop downs, present participle chop downing, simple past and past participle chop downed)
- (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chop, down.
- chop down a tree
- (idiomatic, transitive) To curtail, shorten
- In the final edit, the film was chopped down to two hours.
- (slang, transitive, dated) To attack (someone) with a knife; to kill (someone), especially by shooting with an automatic weapon.
Translations
editchop down a tree
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