to chop

Examples

• All

• I'm going to show you how to chop perfectly and fast.

• The Once-ler proceeds to chop down all of the Truffula Trees for Thneeds.

  Academic text (2000)

• We need to chop it up and burn it.

  Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

• You may have to chop wood for the rest of the year.

  Anglerfish (2022)

• So you could chop onions in a kitchen?

  This Could Be the Night (1957)

• So we're going to chop up, roughly chop the beautiful rocket.

• I was just going to chop some firewood.

  Criminally Insane (1975)

• Metal tools have been used for chopping down trees on Vanatinai for over 100 years.

  Academic text (1991)

• To prepare the salad, she decided to chop the vegetables into small pieces.

• He had to chop the firewood before winter arrived.

Synonyms

S

to slash

vsto chop

80 3.0

To cut forcefully with a knife or sharp tool

is a short, strong strike rather than a long sweeping cut

H

to hack

vsto chop

72 4.7

To cut something roughly with heavy blows

is a sharper, cleaner strike rather than rough repeated cutting

C

to chop up

vsto chop

66 1.9

To cut something into smaller pieces by sharp blows again and again with a knife or axe

uses a single sharp blow rather than repeated cutting

C

to carve

vsto chop

37 1.5

Cut meat into slices for serving

is a forceful strike focused on splitting rather than careful slicing

S

to slice through

vsto chop

17 4.1

Cut or move quickly and smoothly through air and water

is a brief sharp strike rather than a smooth gliding cut

C

to cleave

vsto chop

13 8.0

To cut something in two using a sharp tool like an axe

is a quick striking action rather than a careful split

A

to ax

vsto chop

• US

3 1.3

To chop or split wood with a heavy bladed tool

uses a sharp blow often without requiring a heavy tool

Antonyms

A

to assemble

154 2.9

To put parts together to make something like a machine or toy

J

join

2 2.9

The place where two things meet and are fixed together

Idioms

C

chop-chop

• Archaic

30 8.1

To tell someone to hurry in a quick way

Phrasal Verbs

C

to chop off

94 3.4

To remove something by cutting, often with a sharp blow

C

to chop up

66 1.9

To cut something into smaller pieces by sharp blows again and again with a knife or axe

C

to chop down

17 2.1

To cut through the trunk of a tree so it falls

C

to chop the wood

1 1.8

To cut wood into pieces for firewood

G

to get the chop

• UK

1 8.6

Lose your job, often suddenly

Compounds

L

lamb chop

22 2.1

A small cut of lamb meat with a bone, usually cooked and eaten

C

chop shop

• NSFW

12 9.3

A garage where thieves take stolen cars to remove parts

C

chop suey

5 3.4

A Chinese-style dish of meat or fish and vegetables stir-fried and served with rice

M

mutton chop

3 8.2

Facial hair where long sideburns run down the face in front of the ears

C

chop-shop

• NSFW

1 9.3

An illegal garage that takes stolen cars apart to sell the parts

C

chop steak

• US

1 3.5

A flat piece of cooked ground beef served without a bun, often with gravy

M

mutton chop

1 5.1

A cut of meat from an adult sheep, cooked like a steak

C

chop-suey greens

• Philippine

1 6.3

A leafy green vegetable used in Asian cooking like bok choy

C

chop shot

• Jargon

1 6.9

A tennis stroke where you hit the ball downwards so it spins backwards

How Forceful

to cleave

13 8.0

to hack

72 4.7

to chop

324 1.0

cut

106 1.0

to slice

236 1.0

to nick

31 3.5

Surface Forms

Etymology