chopped

Describes something that has been cut into pieces, often used in cooking contexts.

• 🇵🇹Descreve algo que foi cortado em pedaços, geralmente com uma faca ou outro instrumento afiado, muito usado no contexto de culinária. Também pode indicar algo reduzido drasticamente ou cortado de forma brusca.

1. Cut into pieces A2 formal culinary

   Food that has been cut into small, irregular pieces using a knife or other tool.

   • Add the chopped onions to the pan.
   • She used chopped garlic in the recipe.
   • The salad contains chopped tomatoes and cucumbers.

   🇵🇹Picado

   Sinônimos: cutcut up

   Antônimos: intactuncutwhole

2. Cut off or severed B1 formal

   Something that has been cut off or separated from the main part.

   • The chopped branches lay on the ground after the storm.
   • He found a chopped rope near the dock.
   • The chopped wood was stacked neatly by the fireplace.

   🇵🇹Cortado

   Sinônimos: cutseveredslicedsplit

• more chopped comparative form
• most chopped superlative form

A verb used to indicate the act of cutting something into pieces with a sharp tool, typically an axe, knife, or cleaver.

• 🇵🇹Verbo usado para indicar a ação de cortar algo em pedaços com um instrumento afiado, geralmente um machado, uma faca ou um cutelo.

1. Cut into pieces A2 formal culinary

   To cut something, especially food, into small pieces with a knife or other tool.

   • She chopped the onions finely for the soup.
   • He chopped the wood for the fireplace.
   • The chef chopped the vegetables quickly.

   🇵🇹Picar

   Sinônimos: cubecuthashminceslice

2. Cut down or strike B1 formal

   To cut something down or strike it with a sharp blow.

   • The lumberjack chopped down the old tree.
   • He chopped the branch with an axe.
   • The boxer chopped at his opponent's arm.

   🇵🇹Cortar

   Sinônimos: cleavecutfellhackhewlopseverstrike

3. Reduce or stop B2 informal

   To reduce something drastically or to stop something abruptly.

   • The company chopped the budget for next year.
   • They chopped the TV show after only one season.
   • He chopped his speech short when the fire alarm went off.

   🇵🇹Reduzir ou interromper

   Sinônimos: axecurtailcutdiscontinueendhaltreduceslashstopterminate

   Antônimos: augmentcontinueexpandincreasemaintainsustain

• chopped past participle
• chopped past simple
• chopping present participle
• chops third person singular

Variantes phrasal: chop downchop offchop up