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Adjective clipped has 4 senses
- clipped - having an end or small portion cut off; "birds with clipped wings cannot fly"
Antonym: unclipped
- clipped, docked - (of animals) having ears or tail cut short; "doberman pinschers with docked tails and ears"
Antonym: uncropped (indirect, via cropped)
- clipped - cut or trimmed by clipping; "a handsome man with a clipped moustache"; "clipped hedges"; "close-clipped lawns"; "a clipped poodle"
Antonyms: untrimmed, uncut (indirect, via trimmed)
- clipped - (of speech) having quick short sounds; "a clipped upper-class accent"
Antonym: long (indirect, via short)
Verb clip has 5 senses
- nip, nip off, clip, snip, snip off - sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers"
--1 is one way to cut
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- trot, jog, clip - run at a moderately swift pace
--2 is one way to run
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s PP
- clip - attach with a clip; "clip the papers together"
--3 is one way to attach
Antonyms: unclip
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
- snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back - cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
--4 is one way to thin out
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- clip, curtail, cut short - terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"
--5 is one way to shorten
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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