phrasal verbphr vCUTto remove something by cutting it with a sharptool 〔用利器〕砍掉,砍断
The branch had been chopped off.
这根树枝已经被砍断了。
Examples from the Corpus
chop off• Man, I know a guy, they chopped his pinky off.• The tiebreak, chopping sets off in their prime, ruled out a similarly epicmatch ever taking place again.• The Crows chopped joints off their fingers in mourning so often that they hardly had a whole hand among them.