to chop up

Examples

• All

• You start with a recipe, gather your materials, chop up everything, and cook the prepared ingredients.

  Blog text (29)

• As you may know, chopping up gefilte fish takes a long time.

  Fiction book (1997)

• And so we're going to simply chop these up like so.

• If it is not regular, I can chop up the various parts in some way.

• And we're going to chop this up a little smaller, OK, like so.

• We need to chop it up and burn it.

  Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

• We can chop it up.

  The Fall Guy (2024)

• Then when we're done chopping it up, we could taste this.

• I'm also going to chop up this red pepper.

  Zoe Sugg

• I've got the first layer of cake and we're going to chop up some strawberries.

  Rosanna Pansino

Synonyms

S

to split

vsto chop up

513 1.3

To break something into two or more parts

involves repeated blows to create many small pieces rather than few parts

S

to slice

vsto chop up

203 1.0

To cut something into thin flat pieces with a knife

uses forceful repeated blows to make small pieces rather than thin slices

C

to chop

vsto chop up

193 1.0

To cut something into pieces using a sharp tool like a knife or axe

implies repeated sharp blows to make many small pieces

C

to cut into

vsto chop up

89 2.3

To make something into smaller pieces using a knife or tool

leans more on forceful repeated blows rather than neat cutting

B

to break up

vsto chop up

66 2.7

Separate something into smaller pieces

adds the idea of repeated sharp blows to create many small pieces

C

to carve

vsto chop up

53 1.5

Cut meat into slices for serving

uses forceful repeated blows to reduce size rather than neat serving cuts

S

to split up

vsto chop up

47 2.6

To divide something into smaller parts

specifies repeated sharp blows to make many small fragments

M

to mince

vsto chop up

38 3.1

To cut food into very small pieces

uses manual repeated blows and does not imply very fine pieces

C

to cut up

vsto chop up

32 1.1

Make something into smaller pieces using scissors or a knife

uses repeated sharp blows rather than any cutting method

C

to chop the wood

vsto chop up

12 1.8

To cut wood into pieces for firewood

applies to many materials, not only wood, with repeated blows

S

to slice up

vsto chop up

9 1.5

To cut something into thin slices

results in many small pieces by blunt repeated striking rather than slices

C

to cut to pieces

vsto chop up

8 5.4

Break something into many small parts or hurt someone very badly

focuses on controlled repeated cutting to make smaller pieces

C

to chunk

vsto chop up

1 3.2

To break something into smaller parts

implies making many small fragments through repeated sharp blows

A

to ax

vsto chop up

• US

1.3

To chop or split wood with a heavy bladed tool

is not limited to one tool and stresses repeated blows

How Small

to mince

38 3.1

to chop up

56 1.9

to slice

203 1.0

cut

1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology