Chopped Chop Small Chopping Add Finely Pieces Verb

• he was chopping logs for firewood.
• add the finely chopped onions.
• chop the carrots up into small pieces.
• the country was chopped up into small administrative areas.

chop

1. to cut something into pieces with a sharp tool such as a knife
• He was chopping logs for firewood.
• Add the finely chopped onions.
• Chop the carrots up into small pieces.
• The country was chopped up into small administrative areas.
2. to reduce something by a large amount; to stop something
• synonym cut
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• The share price was chopped from 50 pence to 20 pence.
3. to hit somebody/something with a short downward stroke or blow
4. to keep changing your mind or what you are doing

Extra Examples

• Add finely chopped parsley.
• Chop the meat into small cubes.
• He chopped off the small branches before cutting down the tree.
• I spent the day chopping up vegetables.
• Roughly chop the cabbage.
• The furniture had been chopped to pieces.
• The trees are being chopped down.
• There are concerns over how quickly the forests are being chopped down.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they chop
• he / she / it chops
• past simple chopped
• past participle chopped
• -ing form chopping

Word Origin

• verb late Middle English: variant of chap. chop and change. late Middle English (in the sense ‘barter, exchange’): perhaps related to Old English cēap ‘bargaining, trade’; compare with chap- in chapman, pedlar.