chop off
Third Person
chops off
Present Participle
chopping off
Past Tense
chopped off
Past Participle
chopped off
1
to cut or remove something, usually with a quick and forceful action
- The chef decided to chop off the vegetable ends before preparing the dish.
- The lumberjack used an axe to chop the dead branches off from the tree.
- The hairdresser suggested a bold change and offered to chop off several inches of the client's hair.
- While the sculptor was working on the project, he was chopping off parts of the marble block.