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crown it all en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (UK) To be the final, or last-mentioned, event or occurrence in a series of particularly favourable / fortunate or unfavourable / unfortunate events.
    • A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time. 1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 611:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
crowned it all Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
crowned it all Tense=Past lexicographic
crowning it all Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
crowns it all Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

top it off · cap it all