chopping
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chopping
Rhymes with -ɒpɪŋ
verb
- present participle and gerund of chop
noun choppings
- The action by which something is chopped; the act of assailing something with chops. As soon as this danger was appreciated there followed a nervous smashing and chopping of triffids everywhere, until it occurred to someone that all that was necessary to make them harmless was the removal of the actual stinging weapon.
adjective more chopping · most chopping
- Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other. a chopping sea
- stout; large; plump Yet some prolific planet smil'd, / And gave the pair a chopping child[…]
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: cut, sliced, shredded, cutting, chopping block, butchering, slashing, slash, fabrication, butchery, decapitation, kerf, tomahawk chop, chopper, meat axe, slitting
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