Synonyms for chop down
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : chop |
| Phonetic Transcription : tʃɒp |
Top 10 synonyms for chop down Other synonyms for the word chop down
- advance
- aggress
- bash
- bat
- bean
- beset
- biff
- blister
- boff
- boot
- bop
- brain
- brand
- bust
- carve
- chop down
- clip
- clock
- club
- combat
- cook
- cut
- hurt
- impale
- infiltrate
- invade
- jag
- jump
- kick
- kill
- knock block off
- knock cold
- knock for a loop
- lacerate
- lance
- larrup
- lay siege to
- light into
- molest
- mug
- open up
- overwhelm
- pierce
- pounce upon
- punch
- raid
- rush
- set upon
- shank
- shiv
- slash
- slice
- slog
- soak
- spit
- stab
- stick
- storm
- strike
- take the offensive
- thrust
- turn on
- wallop
- whop
- wound
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for chop down
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