chop down

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chop down (third-person singular simple present chop downs, present participle chop downing, simple past and past participle chop downed)

  1. (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chop,‎ down.
    chop down a tree
  2. (idiomatic, transitive) To curtail, shorten
    In the final edit, the film was chopped down to two hours.
  3. (slang, transitive, dated) To attack (someone) with a knife; to kill (someone), especially by shooting with an automatic weapon.

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