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Chopping

adj, noun, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other.

    "a chopping sea"

  2. 2
    stout; large; plump obsolete

    "Yet some prolific planet smil'd, / And gave the pair a chopping child[…]"

Noun
  1. 1
    The action by which something is chopped; the act of assailing something with chops.

    "As soon as this danger was appreciated there followed a nervous smashing and chopping of triffids everywhere, until it occurred to someone that all that was necessary to make them harmless was the removal of the actual stinging weapon."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of chop form-of, gerund, participle, present

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