crop

1. 1.

   cut short

   “She wanted her hair cropped short”

   Broadercut
2. 2.

   prepare for crops

   “Work the soil”

   “cultivate the land”

   Synonymscultivatework

   Broaderfix

   Narrowerovercrop

   farming

3. 3.

   yield crops

   “This land crops well”

   Broaderbear
4. 4.

   let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

   Synonymsgrazepasture

   Broaderfeed

   Narrowergrassdrift

   animal

5. 5.

   feed as in a meadow or pasture

   “the herd was grazing”

   Synonymsbrowsegrazerangepasture

   Broaderfeed
6. 6.

   cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

   “dress the plants in the garden”

   Synonymssnipcliptrimlopdressprunecut back

   Broaderthin out

   Narrowershearpoll

Other forms of crop

plural

crops·

past tense or participle

cropped

present participle

cropping

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crop

What does crop mean?

crop means "the yield from plants in a single growing season". That is the primary sense; the word has 12 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crop?

crop has 1 syllable: crop. In IPA it is /ˈkɹɑp/.

What is another word for crop?

Close synonyms include harvest, craw, cultivate, work, graze. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crop a common word?

crop is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.