chop down

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chop down (third-person singular simple present chop downs, present participle chop downing, simple past and past participle chop downed)

1. (transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chop,‎ down.

   chop down a tree

2. (idiomatic, transitive) To curtail, shorten

   In the final edit, the film was chopped down to two hours.