"top it off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-top it off.ogg [Australia] Forms: tops it off [present, singular, third-person], topping it off [participle, present], topped it off [participle, past], topped it off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} top it off (third-person singular simple present tops it off, present participle topping it off, simple past and past participle topped it off)
  1. (idiomatic) To emphasize or underscore; to make something even better or worse. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: top it all Translations (emphasize): bekronen (Dutch), kaiken kukkuraksi (Finnish), kaupan päälle (Finnish), en plus (english: et en plus) (French), فوق هادا كله (Libyan Arabic), وفوقها (Libyan Arabic), e ainda por cima (Portuguese), para colmo (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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