lop :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

v. cut off from a whole; "His head was severed from his body"; "The soul discerped from the body"

v. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"

v. remove surgically; "amputate limbs"

v. force, take, or pull apart; "He separated the fighting children"; "Moses parted the Red Sea"

v. make by cutting into; "The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock"

v. divide into pieces; "our department was dismembered when our funding dried up"; "The Empire was discerped after the war"

v. separate the limbs from the body; "the tiger dismembered the tourist"

v. cause to become detached or separated; take off; "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it"

v. come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery"

v. make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

v. cause to go into a solution; "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"

v. cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"

v. make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution"

v. weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"

v. cut the price of

v. make shorter as if by cutting off; "truncate a word"; "Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"

v. decrease gradually or bit by bit