lop off

Verb

transitive

(transitive) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.

Japanese Meaning

（剪定の文脈で）枝や小さな部分を切り落とす / （文脈によっては）首をはねる、すなわち頭部や上部を切り落とす

He decided to lop off the dead branches of the rose bush before winter.

彼は冬が来る前にバラの枯れた枝を切り落とすことにした。

Sense（1）

(transitive) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.

TPE's Manchester Airport-Newcastle has both ends lopped off to become Manchester Victoria-York.

lops off

（ present singular third-person ）

lopping off

（ participle present ）

lopped off

（ participle past ）

lopped off

（ past ）