Antonyms for chop down

Grammar : Verb

Spell : chop

Phonetic Transcription : tʃɒp

Definition of chop down

Origin : "to cut with a quick blow," mid-14c., of uncertain origin, perhaps from Old North French choper (Old French coper "to cut, cut off," 12c., Modern French couper), from Vulgar Latin *cuppare "to behead," from a root meaning "head," but influenced in Old French by couper "to strike." Related: Chopped; chopping.

As in knife : verb stab with pointed tool
As in attack : verb assault physically

Example sentences :

She can chop down a tree as well as he can, and build a fire better.
Extract from : « Riders of the Silences » by John Frederick

Cutter often threatened to chop down the cedar trees which half-buried the house.
Extract from : « My Antonia » by Willa Cather

Then I'll have a chop down in a brace o' shakes, as my aunt used t' say.
Extract from : « In Quest of Gold » by Alfred St. Johnston

They had to chop down trees, to build houses, to plough prairies.
Extract from : « The Spirit of America » by Henry Van Dyke

Well, say you, let us set to work and chop down some of these trees.
Extract from : « Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer for the last Fifty Years » by Samuel Thompson

And I said I guessed he'd die before he could ever chop down a tree.
Extract from : « Roy Blakeley » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

First you chop down the trees, then you burn them up and raise your first crop or two round the stumps.
Extract from : « The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound » by Harold Bindloss

And he got there long before the rest, for they had to chop down the trees, saw them up and load them on the carts.
Extract from : « The Swedish Fairy Book » by Various

Are we to chop down a few trees and lop off branches to secure the necessary lumber for the closet?
Extract from : « The Woodcraft Girls at Camp » by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

I was goin' to chop down them two trees to-morrer, an' as that chimney never draw'd well, I had concluded to have it rebuilt.
Extract from : « Out of the Hurly-Burly » by Charles Heber Clark

Synonyms for chop down

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