chopping
Meaning of chopping
verb, gerund or present participle
- cut (something) into pieces with repeated sharp blows of an axe or knife.
they chopped up the pulpit for firewood
finely chop the parsley
- abolish or reduce the size of (something) in a way regarded as ruthless.
their training courses are to be chopped
late Middle English: variant of chap1.
Information about chopping
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of chopping is: choppings.
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Hyphenation of chopping
chop-ping
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- chopping is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
chopping synonyms
Meaning raise (a number or value) to its cube:
Meaning play or gamble with dice:
Meaning cut up or grind (food, especially meat) into very small pieces, typically in a machine with revolving blades:
Meaning make (meat or other food) into a hash:
Meaning chop or cut (something, especially wood or coal) with an axe, pick, or other tool:
Meaning break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into halves or along the grain:
Meaning split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain:
Meaning divide into pieces with a knife or other sharp implement:
Meaning formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution):
Meaning discard or remove from service (a redundant, old, or inoperative vehicle, vessel, or machine), especially so as to convert it to scrap metal:
Meaning end, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly:
Meaning cut with a wide, sweeping movement, typically using a knife or sword:
Words that rhyme with chopping
Ping, ping, Sellotaping, aping, awhaping, bedraping, beleaping, caping, cheaping, craping, dognaping, draping, escaping, gaping, graping, heaping, japing, kidnaping, landscaping, leaping, misshaping, neaping, nonscraping, outleaping, outshaping, overheaping, overleaping, petnaping, preescaping, preshaping, pretaping, raping, reaping, relandscaping, reshaping, retaping, scaping, scraping, sellotaping, shaping, skyscraping, sneaping, soaping, subgaping, taping, threaping, townscaping, transshaping, traping, uncaping
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