chop down

Picture source: allposters.es Meaning: If you chop down something like a tree, you cause it to fall by cutting through its base.

For example:

• chop down sth Why don’t you chop down that old tree before it falls on the house?
  
• chop sth down My son told me he's very worried about people chopping the forests down because trees produce most of the oxygen we breathe.
  

Quick Quiz:

Wood chip companies chop down millions of trees in our forests every year in order to make

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Click for answer c.