chopping

Meaning of chopping

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. cut (something) into pieces with repeated sharp blows of an axe or knife.
    they chopped up the pulpit for firewood
    finely chop the parsley
  2. 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:

cube

Meaning play or gamble with dice:

dice

Meaning cut up or grind (food, especially meat) into very small pieces, typically in a machine with revolving blades:

mince

Meaning make (meat or other food) into a hash:

hash

Meaning chop or cut (something, especially wood or coal) with an axe, pick, or other tool:

hew

Meaning break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into halves or along the grain:

split

Meaning split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain:

cleave

Meaning divide into pieces with a knife or other sharp implement:

cut

Meaning formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution):

abolish

Meaning discard or remove from service (a redundant, old, or inoperative vehicle, vessel, or machine), especially so as to convert it to scrap metal:

scrap

Meaning end, cancel, or dismiss suddenly and ruthlessly:

axe

Meaning cut with a wide, sweeping movement, typically using a knife or sword:

slash

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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