top out

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verb

1. give up one's career just as one becomes very successful
- The financial consultant topped out at age 40 because he was burned out
• Hypernyms:
leave office, quit, step down, resign
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
2. provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- the towers were topped with conical roofs
• Syn:
top
• Derivationally related forms:
top (for: top), topper (for: top)
• Hypernyms:
supply, provide, render, furnish
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
3. to reach the highest point;
attain maximum intensity, activity
- That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929
- Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million
• Syn:
peak
• Ant:
bottom out
• Derivationally related forms:
peak (for: peak)
• Hypernyms:
reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain
• Hyponyms:
crest
• Entailment:
rise, lift, arise, move up, go up,
come up, uprise
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP