Croppen

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. An archaic past participle of crop, describing something that has been cut short, clipped, or gathered from the ground
2. Old past form of the verb crop, used of plants or hair that have been trimmed off or harvested in earlier English
3. A dated participle of crop meaning having been clipped, trimmed, or reaped, as in older writing about fields and hair

Etymology: "Croppen" is an inflected form of a verb meaning to cut something short, so it belongs to the same family as "crop." That English verb grows from the Old English noun "cropp," meaning the top or bud of a plant, and cutting something short is what happens to a plant's top when it is clipped.

Synonyms: cut, trim, clip, shear, lop

Antonyms: grow