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cropped

SayKROPTUS/kɹɑpt//kɹɒpt/

4 meanings of cropped

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  1. 1
    adjective
    Cut very short, the way hair or a hedge can be.

    Like grass cut down very low by a mower.

    She likes her hair cropped short for the summer.

    The gardener kept the hedge neat and cropped.

    Similarshort, clipped, trimmed, shorn

    Oppositelong, untrimmed

  2. 2
    adjective
    Cut around the edges so the outer part is removed.

    Like cutting the white border off a picture.

    The cropped photo left out the messy background.

    I used a cropped image for my profile picture.

    Similartrimmed

    Oppositeuncropped

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  3. 3
    verb
    Simple past and past participle of crop. Use it when the cutting or harvesting already happened.

    The farmer cropped the wheat in late summer.

    She cropped the photo before posting it online.

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  4. 4
    adjective
    Planted with food crops, like a field used for wheat or corn.

    Like a garden bed that has vegetables growing in it.

    The cropped fields stretched for miles around the village.

    Most of the cropped land here grows corn.

    Similarcultivated, tilled

    Oppositeuncultivated, fallow

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cropped is a form of crop

crop, verb: To cut off the outer edges of a photo so the main part looks better. Full entry

Forms
cropcrops he/she/itcropping -ing formcropped past tense, past participle
Spelling
crop → cropped: double the p, add -ed
Sound
The ending sounds like /t/.

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Origin

It comes from the word "crop".