Synonyms for lop
Definitions
- v. 1
To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
- v. 2
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
Forms
- Past participle
- lopt
e.g. lopt → snipped, pruned, cropped, trimmed…
Example sentences
- trim Some people stay trim even without going to a gym.
- prune Your vagina is not going to shrivel up like a prune.
- snip Ziri wants a snip of ivy to propagate it in his garden.
- droop The big green plant was starting to droop at the stem.
By length
- 3 letters
- cut1
- 4 letters
- clip1, crop1, dock1, trim1, snip1
- 5 letters
- dress1, sever2, prune1, droop1, snead1
- 7 letters
- shorten2, curtail2, discerp
- 8 letters
- amputate3, truncate2, retrench2
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sever2 = 2 syllables).