capping

verboutdo a performance

Synonyms for capping

verb outdo a performance

Antonyms for capping

Word Origin & History

c.1400, "to put a cap on," from cap (n.). Meaning "cover as with s cap" is from c.1600. Figurative sense of "go one better" is from 1580s. Related: Capped; capping.

Example Sentences for capping

It is the capping climax of the whole revelation of God's Word.

Then it became eleven, and Crook was tired of it, and made the capping move in his bluff.

On our left and more distant, capping a high eminence, Mizpah was seen.

When the upper face of the tablet splits off, we speak of "capping."

Should "capping" still occur, the amount of fat starch might be increased.

Away on the horizon you may perceive a monument, capping a hill.

The old man had never seen Pittsburgh and it war the capping argument.

Three courses of brick are corbelled to make the capping of the chimneys.

Then they all began to pay him compliments, each one capping the other's remark.

At twenty they underwent the ceremony of capping, and were considered men.

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