| VERB | contact | lop off, cut off, chop off | remove by or as if by cutting |
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| Meaning | Remove by or as if by cutting. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Example | "lop off the dead branch" | |
| Synonyms | cut off, chop off | |
| Entailed by | truncate, cut short | make shorter / shorter as if by cutting off |
| Narrower | abscise | Remove or separate by abscission |
| roach | cut the mane off (a horse) | |
| Broader | detach, come off, come away | Come to be detached |
| Spanish | tronchar | |
| Catalan | partir, trencar | |
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