Thesaurus results for CHOPPED (DOWN)

chopped (down)

verb

past tense of chop (down)

as in cut (down)

to bring down by cutting we have to chop down that tree out front before it falls on the house

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mowed

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The Twins participated in one earlier this season when Cleveland’s Gavin Williams mowed them down on July 23.

— Dan Hayes, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Another approach is to surround a tree with a planting of a ground cover that doesn’t need to be mowed or trimmed.

— Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2026

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