cropped

1. 1
   adjective

   Made short, or extremely short, by cutting.

   He wore a neatly cropped beard that framed his face.

   Her cropped jacket ended well above the waist.

   Similarshort, clipped, trimmed, shorn

   Oppositelong, untrimmed

2. 2
   adjective

   Trimmed at the edges so that the outer area is removed.

   The designer used a tightly cropped portrait for the cover.

   A cropped satellite image highlighted just the river delta.

   Similartrimmed

   Oppositeuncropped

   Note

   Here the cut removes edges, not length. An image can be lightly cropped, tightly cropped, or so cropped that its setting disappears, and comparisons take more and most (more cropped, most cropped). Because the word points to what has been left out, it often carries a hint of something withheld, as with trimmed photos that hide where they were taken.

3. 3
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of crop.

   The editor cropped the image to fit the column.

   Sheep had cropped the grass right down to the soil.

   Note

   A regular past with a doubled consonant: the p of crop doubles before -ed, just as stop gives stopped. One form covers every use of the verb: sheep that cropped the grass, a groomer who cropped a dog's ears, an editor who cropped a photo, a field that cropped well. The participle also settles into adjectives for the trimmed image and farmed land.

4. 4
   adjective

   Planted with agricultural crops, as a field or stretch of farmland that has been used for growing them.

   The cropped acreage produced a strong harvest this year.

   Surveyors mapped the cropped land separately from the woodland.

   Similarcultivated, tilled

   Oppositeuncultivated, fallow

   Note

   In farming language it pairs naturally with uncropped: a patch of land is one or the other depending on whether crops were grown on it, which is how rotation shows up on the ground. It comes from the verb's sense "to cause to bear a crop," not from cutting, so cropped land is farmed land, not mown land.

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