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English
Etymology
From be- (“on, at, upon”) + top.
Verb
betop (third-person singular simple present betops, present participle betopping, simple past and past participle betopped)
- (transitive, rare) To top
1841, Lord William Pitt Lennox, Complex Audley:The Pagoda is the great Leviathan of the river Snowford; every thing on its banks must yield toils proud supremacy; it betops all contemporaries.
2009, Morris Lurie, To Light Attained:So now we have, ladies and gentlemen, the Botanic Gardens once more to one side, on the right now, as you will appreciate, doing our circuit clockwise around, noting also, if you haven't already, not only the firmly locked until clearly stated opening times (subject to seasonal variation) iron gates, but also the betopped by cruel spikes encircling iron fence, which, should that prove insufficient, supplementarily augmented by the stranding of barbed wire.
2012, John Colman Wood, The Names of Things:The power company had lopped off the tops of the trees along the road, and they stood betopped, blunted, like a child's drawing of trees.
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