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Meanings of lop in English

Portuguese
podar
Catalan
esporgar
Spanish
podar

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.

      podar
      Portuguese
      podar
      Catalan
      esporgar
      Spanish
      podar

      Cut off from a whole.

            podar
            Usage of lop in English
            1
            Eni said Saipem's warning would lop 200 million euros off its earnings.
            Reuters
            2
            The lop-eared cub drew out of the race at the same time.
            Northern Trails, Book I.
            3
            It was just the rain, though, blown inside past the lop-sided shutters.
            Empire in black and gold
            4
            But surely the maddest men of all are the lop-sided man-bag martyrs.
            The Guardian
            5
            One more weary effort getting nearly electrocuted to lop down the bristles.
            A singular man
            6
            What a lop-sided thing a civilised sense of values seemed to be!
            The Splendid Folly
            7
            If you lop its head off, surely it won't grow another one.
            Taken by sin
            8
            His stump was roughly tied off; a demon supported his lop-sided body.
            Complete Books of Blood
            9
            In line 22 the average measurements of seven large lop-eared rabbits are given.
            The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume...
            10
            Of course it would have been a little lop-sided if they weren't involved.
            The Irish Times
            11
            Their opportunities mostly came through Cyrus Christie's mistakes and our lop-sided team shape.
            The Irish Times
            12
            Or worse, it's become an increasingly lop-sided competition where only the strong survive.
            The Irish Times
            13
            They had many classic matches; this lop-sided four-setter was not one of them.
            The Guardian
            14
            She'll be sure to lop off fifteen or twenty pounds in the telling.
            Her Weight in Gold
            15
            In the end, the race had a lop-sided feel to it.
            The Guardian
            16
            Here was another horribly lop-sided contest not involving an associate side.
            The Guardian
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            Translations for lop
            Spanish
            podar
            Lop through the time
            Lop across language varieties
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