to cut, clip, pare, crop, lop, prune, trim, dress

escape, get off

be set free, released or let off, be separated

retrenchment, sorting, cut back, reduction, pruning

(of branches) be pruned, be lopped

a small basket with no covering, broken basket

break, crush, pound, beat, hammer, flatten

to cause to be separated, liberate, rescue

to sprinkle, scatter

reduce fat from meat

cite laws in discussion, argue unnecessarily

chop logic

to make nice distinctions

to fine, refine, to purify, to clarify, to wash (clothes)

spread a false report