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Definition of crop verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

crop

verb
 
/krɒp/
 
/krɑːp/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they crop
 
/krɒp/
 
/krɑːp/
he / she / it crops
 
/krɒps/
 
/krɑːps/
past simple cropped
 
/krɒpt/
 
/krɑːpt/
past participle cropped
 
/krɒpt/
 
/krɑːpt/
-ing form cropping
 
/ˈkrɒpɪŋ/
 
/ˈkrɑːpɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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    hair

  1. [transitive] crop something (+ adj.) to cut somebody’s hair very short
    • closely cropped hair
    • His hair had been cropped short and he looked different.
    Topics Appearancec2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb
    • closely
    phrases
    • crop something short
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    2.

    image

  2. [transitive] crop something (specialist) to cut off part of a photograph, picture or image

    3. of animals

  3. [transitive] crop something to bite off and eat the tops of plants, especially grass
    • The horses were quietly cropping the grass.
    4.

    plants

  4. [intransitive] (of plants) to produce a crop
    • The potatoes cropped well this year.
    Topics Farmingc2
  5. [transitive] crop something to use land to grow crops
    • The river valley is intensively cropped.
    Topics Farmingc2
    6. Word OriginOld English, of Germanic origin; related to German Kropf. From Old English to the late 18th cent. there existed a sense ‘flower head, ear of corn’, giving rise to sense (1) and senses referring to the top of something.
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