CAP OFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cap off mean? 

• CAP OFF (verb)
  The verb CAP OFF has 1 sense:

1. finish or complete, as with some decisive action

  Familiarity information: CAP OFF used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAP OFF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Finish or complete, as with some decisive action

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

he capped off the meeting with a radical proposal

Hypernyms (to "cap off" is one way to...):

clear up; finish off; finish up; get through; mop up; polish off; wrap up (finish a task completely)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something

 Context examples 

Once in summer when he was working alone in the garden, the day was so warm he took his little cap off that the air might cool him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You may think how proud I was to walk down the village street with my magnificent relative, and to note out of the corner of my eye how the folk came to the doors and windows to see us pass. Champion Harrison was standing outside the smithy, and he pulled his cap off when he saw my uncle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When he got into the room, the king’s daughter said: “Take your cap off, it is not seemly to keep it on in my presence.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)