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# lop

«lop» in Mova's school dictionary: **to cut off with one swift stroke, such as a branch or a head** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (lops, lopped, lopping)

### meaning for a pupil

To lop is to cut off with one swift stroke, such as a branch or a head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lop/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a hero lops off the heads of a monster

### examples

- The hero lopped off the dragon's head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lop/#x1)
- Dad lopped the dead branch off the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lop/#x2)
- Jason lopped the branch from the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lop/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths in general; 'lop off 9' takes 9 away, so the count goes down by 9.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.