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Definition of lopping : 1. A cutting off, as of branches; that which is cut off; leavings.
2. of Lop

Synonyms:

shearing, discarding, checking, exuding, excising, excluding, ejecting, chopping, culling, sniping, emitting, rejecting, discharging, clipping, secreting, venting, cropping, spewing, vomiting, jilting, disclaiming, jettisoning, blacklisting, shedding, cutting, curtailing, disallowing, seeping, eliminating, blackballing, erupting, junking, oppugning, exhausting, excreting, disgorging, ejaculating, draining, abandoning, disapproving, barring, deep-sixing, evacuating, trashing, belching, denying

Usage examples:

• I am vastly better in nervous tone than I was a year ago, my work is simplified down to the exact thing I want to do, and I ought to be happy in spite of the lopping off of so many faculties of activity. - "The Letters of William James, Vol. II", William James.
• I proposed lopping off the bad limb of our little party, so as to leave the rest free to hobble on. - "Middy and Ensign", G. Manville Fenn.
• Then I went to the house where I kept my tools for my work in the cemetery, and got a shears which I used for lopping the cypress trees. - "The Garden Of Allah", Robert Hichens.