snip

1. 1.

   sever or remove by pinching or snipping

   “nip off the flowers”

   Synonymsnipnip offclipsnip off

   Broadercut
2. 2.

   cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

   “dress the plants in the garden”

   Synonymsclipcroptrimlopdressprunecut back

   Broaderthin out

   Narrowershearpolltopdisbud

Other forms of snip

plural

snips·

past tense or participle

snipped

present participle

snipping

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 snip

What does snip mean?

snip means "a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in snip?

snip has 1 syllable: snip. In IPA it is /ˈsnɪp/.

What is another word for snip?

Close synonyms include snippet, snipping, clip, clipping, nip. 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 snip a common word?

snip is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.