verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
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Kanishka's head and torso were lopped off long ago.
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Hrudey was a casualty of a team in dire financial trouble that wanted to lop off its higher-priced and older players.
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If he did, it was lopped off .
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I see developing trees with only two main growth arteries where one has been lopped off , leaving an odd-looking lopsided thing.
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His swamp-hunter boots could have been an elephant's feet lopped off and hollowed out.
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Pick your head up to look too far down the road and get it lopped off .
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The result looked like an insidious, grey-green growth lopped off an otherwise healthy young tree to protect its trunk.
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The poor rarely fell trees: they mainly lop off small branches, twigs, roots and dead wood.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A cull of 1,000 middle managers should lop a further £225m off costs.
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Hrudey was a casualty of a team in dire financial trouble that wanted to lop off its higher-priced and older players.
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I see developing trees with only two main growth arteries where one has been lopped off, leaving an odd-looking lopsided thing.
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In 1995, he lopped 1. 5 seconds off his 100 butterfly.
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It lopped points off the government's rating in the opinion polls.
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Kanishka's head and torso were lopped off long ago.
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The building society has a discount which lops 2.36 per cent off its variable mortgage rate during the first year.
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The cost-cutting efforts lopped $ 200 million from annual operating expenses.