top out
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
give up one's career just as one becomes very successful
The financial consultant topped out at age 40 because he was burned out
Types & categories
- step down hypernym
Sense 2 verb
provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
the towers were topped with conical roofs
Types & categories
- supply hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 verb
to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity
That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- bottom out antonym
- peak derivation
- summit derivation
- rise entails
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | step down |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | top |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | topper |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | supply |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | bottom out |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | peak |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | summit |
| 3 | entails | Related & opposite | rise |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | reach |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | crest |