chop down

phrasal verb

chopped down; chopping down; chops down

: to cut (a tree, bush, etc.) at the bottom so that it falls to the ground

He chopped the tree down.

She chopped down some thick grape vines.

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Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024 Cut Down Your Own Tree Go old-school and chop down your own tree this year at a local tree farm. —

Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Dec. 2024 Every year, Americans chop down hundreds of thousands of Christmas trees — often for twenty bucks or less. —

Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024 The Christmas tree that hordes of tourists will flock to Rockefeller Center to see this holiday season is scheduled to be chopped down in western Massachusetts on Thursday and hauled 140 miles to Midtown Manhattan. —

Brian Niemietz, Hartford Courant, 7 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for chop down