Lopped

Word LOPPED
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Definitions and meanings of "Lopped"

What do we mean by lopped?

(usually with off) 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.

To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

To allow to hang down.

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The word "lopped" in example sentences

Luckily, the system fell apart when the head of this confederacy of dunces was lopped from the shoulders. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The son having sent his father a messenger to know how he might bring the Gabii under a close subjection, the king, mistrusting the messenger, made him no answer, and only took him into his privy garden, and in his presence with his sword lopped off the heads of the tall poppies that were there. ❋ Unknown (2002)

With a solid strike his sword lopped off one of the screeling's arms. ❋ Goodkind, Terry (1995)

The carnivorous flower's first warning that all was not well was received when Stevens 'steel-shod feet landed squarely upon its base and one sweeping cut of his sword lopped off the malignant blossom and severed the two tendrils that still held the unconscious Nadia. ❋ Unknown (1927)

Seeing this our hero made a sudden rush at one of the men who fought with a battle-axe, seized the axe by the handle, and with one sweep of his sword lopped off the man's arm. ❋ Unknown (1859)

But the spear of Gaul pierced the gloomy chief; his sword lopped off his head as it bended in death. ❋ Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1853)

Gabii under a close subjection, the king, mistrusting the messenger, made him no answer, and only took him into his privy garden, and in his presence with his sword lopped off the heads of the tall poppies that were there. ❋ Fran��ois Rabelais (1518)

But the fpear of Gaul pierced the gloomy chief; his fword lopped off his head, as it bended in death. ❋ Unknown (1784)

When it tried to overtake the window frame we cruelly lopped side branches and still it blossomed and bore its bitter progeny the size and wrinkle of walnuts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I lopped over 3,000 words from it, most of which came out of the beginning. ❋ Odysseyworkshop (2009)

"Thornton," Steinmeyer explains, "had sent the message to himself, from Cripple Creek to Colorado Springs," where he surreptitiously lopped off the telltale portion before handing it over to the policeman. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Roche, whose statement kicks off third-quarter reports from big pharmaceutical companies, said the franc had lopped 13 percent off its top line in the first nine months of the year and that if exchange rates were to remain stable, the full-year sales impact would be 12 percent. ❋ Reuters (2011)

When a movie is edited for TV and watched on a screen shaped like a box, 30 percent of what the director intended to be seen is lopped off. ❋ Gary Jansen (2010)

When I went to pick her up the next day, her waist-length honey-brown curls had been lopped off in a cute, chin-length bob. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Liverpool's Everyman and Playhouse theatres are losing 20% of their funding, and the Hull Truck Theatre has had £100,000 lopped from its budget. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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