| VERB | contact | lop, discerp, sever | cut off from a whole |
|---|---|---|---|
| contact | lop, snip, clip, crop, trim, dress, prune, cut back | cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of |
| Sounds | laa'p | |
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| Rhymes | Aesop ... workshop: 48 rhymes with aap... | |
| Meaning | cut off from a whole. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | discerp, sever | |
| Broader | cut | separate with or as if with an instrument |
| Similar to | sever, break up | set or keep apart |
| Spanish | cortar, podar, romper, separar | |
| Catalan | esporgar, podar | |
| Nouns | lopper | a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper |
| Meaning | cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Model | They lop the trees | |
| Synonyms | snip, clip, crop, trim, dress, prune, cut back | |
| Narrower | disbud | thin out buds to improve the quality of the remaining flowers |
| poll, pollard | convert into a pollard | |
| shear | cut with shears | |
| top, pinch | cut the top off | |
| Broader | thin out | make sparse |
| Spanish | podar | |
| Catalan | esporgar, podar | |
| Nouns | lopper | a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper |
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