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| Main Entry: | lop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trim |
| Synonyms: | chop, clip, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, mow, pare, prune, shear, snip, truncate, pare down |
| Main Entry: | amputate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove a limb |
| Synonyms: | cut off, dismember, eliminate, excise, lop, separate, sever, truncate, cut away |
| Main Entry: | chop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut up with tool |
| Synonyms: | cleave, clip, cube, dice, divide, fell, fragment, hack, hash, hew, lop, mangle, mince, sever, shear, slash, truncate, whack, axe, hackle |
| Main Entry: | crop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, trim off |
| Synonyms: | chop, clip, curtail, detach, disengage, hew, lop, mow, pare, prune, reduce, shave, shear, shorten, slash, snip, top, truncate, detruncate, pollard, skive |
| Main Entry: | curtail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut short; abridge |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, chop, clip, contract, cramp, cut, cut back, decrease, diminish, dock, downsize, halt, lessen, lop, reduce, retrench, shorten, slash, trim, truncate, boil down, get to meat, minify, pare down, put in nutshell, roll back |
| Antonyms: | extend, increase, lengthen, prolong |
| Main Entry: | droop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hang down; languish |
| Synonyms: | bend, dangle, decline, depress, diminish, drop, fade, fail, faint, flag, lean, let down, loll, lop, sag, settle, sink, sling, slouch, slump, subside, suspend, weaken, wilt, wither, fall down |
| Antonyms: | inflate, rise |
| Main Entry: | flap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flutter |
| Synonyms: | agitate, beat, dangle, flail, flash, flop, hang, lop, shake, swing, swish, thrash, vibrate, wag, wave, thresh |
| Main Entry: | flutter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wave rapidly, flap |
| Synonyms: | agitate, bat, beat, dance, drift, flicker, flit, flop, fluctuate, hover, lop, oscillate, palpitate, pulsate, quaver, quiver, ripple, ruffle, shake, shiver, swing, throb, tremble, vibrate, wiggle, wobble, flitter |
| Main Entry: | hop |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | jump on one leg |
| Synonyms: | bounce, bound, caper, dance, hurdle, leap, lop, lope, skip, spring, step, trip, vault, skitter |
| Main Entry: | hurdle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | jump over an obstacle |
| Synonyms: | bounce, bound, clear, conquer, down, hop, lick, lop, master, negotiate, over, overcome, scale, spring, surmount, vault, jump across, leap over, saltate |
| Notes: | hurdle refers to a difficulty or obstacle; hurtle means to move with great speed or violence |
| Main Entry: | leap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | jump, jump over; increase |
| Synonyms: | advance, arise, ascend, bounce, bound, caper, cavort, clear, escalate, frisk, hop, hurdle, lop, mount, rise, rocket, skip, soar, spring, surge, vault, saltate |
| Main Entry: | pare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | peel, trim |
| Synonyms: | carve, clip, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, decorticate, decrease, dock, flay, knock off, lop, lower, prune, reduce, scrape, shave, shear, skin, slash, strip, thin, uncover, mark down, scalp, skive |
| Antonyms: | cover |
| Main Entry: | prune |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trim; cut short |
| Synonyms: | clip, cut back, dock, eliminate, exclude, gut, knock off, lop, reduce, shape, shave, shear, shorten, snip, thin, pare down, skive |
| Main Entry: | shorten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | diminish, decrease |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abridge, bob, chop, clip, compress, condense, contract, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, dock, edit, elide, excerpt, lessen, lop, minimize, reduce, retrench, shrink, slash, snip, trim, blue pencil, boil down*, cut to the bone, make a long story short, put in a nutshell |
| Antonyms: | amplify, elongate, enlarge, grow, increase, lengthen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | truncate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shorten |
| Synonyms: | abbreviate, abridge, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut off, cut short, lop, pare, prune, shear, top, trim |
| Antonyms: | elongate, expand, lengthen, stretch |
| Main Entry: | cut down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fell |
| Synonyms: | dispatch, hew, kill, level, lop, massacre, mow, raze, slaughter, slay, mow down |
| Antonyms: | plant |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise |
| Synonyms: | amputate, behead, bisect, bite, carve, chip, chisel, cleave, clip, crop, curtail, dice, dispatch, dissect, divide, facet, fell, gash, guillotine, hack, hash, hew, intersect, lacerate, level, lop, massacre, mince, mow, nick, notch, part, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prune, puncture, quarter, raze, reap, rend, rip, saber, score, separate, shave, shear, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, sliver, snip, chine, decussate, dissever, flitch, lay open, mow down, rabbet, rive, saw, scarify, scissor, scythe, sickle, skive |
| Main Entry: | flop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall limply, collapse |
| Synonyms: | dangle, droop, drop, flag, flap, flounder, flutter, hang, jerk, lop, quiver, sag, slump, stagger, teeter, topple, toss, totter, tumble, wave, wiggle |
| Main Entry: | hang |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | suspend or be suspended |
| Synonyms: | adhere, attach, bend, bow, cling, cover, dangle, deck, decorate, depend, drape, drift, droop, drop, fasten, fix, flap, float, flop, furnish, hold, hover, incline, lean, loll, lop, lower, nail, overhang, pin, project, remain, rest, sag, stick, swing, tack, trail, wave, be fastened, be in mid-air, be loose, be pendent, be poised, beetle, impend, stay up |
| Main Entry: | jump |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | leap, spring |
| Synonyms: | bail out, barge, bob, bounce, bound, buck, canter, caper, clear, dive, drop, fall, gambol, hop, hurdle, hurtle, jerk, jiggle, jounce, lop, lunge, lurch, plummet, pop, quiver, rattle, ricochet, shake, skip, sky, surge, take, top, trip, vault, waver, wobble, curvet, lollop, parachute, saltate, somersault |
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