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chipped

VERB

knock a piece out of

Synonyms

STRONGEST

chop crack hack nick splinter whack

STRONG

break chisel clip crumble damage flake fragment gash hackle hew incise notch shape shear slash slice sliver snick snip split whittle

WEAK

crack off cut away cut off

Antonyms

STRONGEST

fix mend

STRONG

build combine increase join put together

Example Sentences

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Standing on four pronged feet at the junction of two rivers, O’Donnell + Tuomey’s five-story design resembles a giant chipped molar.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026

Instead, he took his medicine, chipped back into position and it yielded three birdies.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

McKellen suffered a chipped vertebra and fractured wrist, but he says the doctors didn’t find anything else wrong with him.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

This is especially true given that U.S. consumers already don’t feel great after years of above-normal inflation that chipped away at their purchasing power.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 8, 2026

Their paint of blue, maroon, and yellow, so rich when we began this journey, is now faded and chipped.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone