chop something ↔ off phrasal verbphr v CUTto remove something by cutting it with a sharp tool 〔用利器〕砍掉，砍断 The branch had been chopped off. 这根树枝已经被砍断了。
chop off• Man, I know a guy, they chopped his pinky off.• The tiebreak, chopping sets off in their prime, ruled out a similarly epic match ever taking place again.• The Crows chopped joints off their fingers in mourning so often that they hardly had a whole hand among them.
→ chop something ↔ off at chop1(4)