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chop down

verb chops down · chopping down · chopped down

  1. transitive Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chop, down. chop down a tree
  2. idiomatic, transitive To curtail, shorten In the final edit, the film was chopped down to two hours.
  3. dated, slang, transitive To attack (someone) with a knife; to kill (someone), especially by shooting with an automatic weapon.

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verb chop down a tree

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@misc{chop_down_2026,
  title = {chop down},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chop%20down},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}