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TOP OFF
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Dictionary entry overview: What does top off mean?
• TOP OFF (verb)
The verb TOP OFF has 2 senses:
1. finish up or conclude
2. fill to the point of almost overflowing
Familiarity information: TOP OFF used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Finish up or conclude
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
top; top off
Context example:
top the evening with champagne
Hypernyms (to "top off" is one way to...):
complete; finish (come or bring to a finish or an end)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Fill to the point of almost overflowing
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
She topped off the cup
Hypernyms (to "top off" is one way to...):
fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples
First top off, then half-done, then— Will you hold your tongue, cried the cat, one word more, and I will eat you too.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Arthur bent and kissed her, and then we sent him and Quincey out of the tomb; the Professor and I sawed the top off the stake, leaving the point of it in the body.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Top off! cried the mouse, that is a very odd and uncommon name, is it a usual one in your family?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
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