chopping
About 1.10 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb present participle and gerund of chop
- noun The action by which something is chopped; the act of assailing something with chops.
- adjective Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other.
a chopping sea
- adjective stout; large; plump
Similar words
cut sliced shredded cutting chopping block butchering slashing slash fabrication butchery
Often followed by
wood and block down the off up board of
Word family
chop chopped chops
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