capped

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of cap.

   The company capped annual membership fees at two hundred dollars.

   Snow had capped the distant peaks by early November.

   Note

   The doubled p follows the usual rule for short verbs that end in one vowel and one consonant: cap, capped, capping. One form covers both past and participle, so a firm that capped its spending and a player who was capped for his country share it. The passive sits most naturally with the honor sense, because a cap is an award that is received, not given to oneself.

2. 2
   adjective

   Fitted with a cap or covering, or held to a fixed upper limit, depending on context.

   Like a mountain peak wearing a white hat of snow.

   A capped fee structure protects customers from surprise charges.

   The snow-capped ridge glowed pink at sunrise.

   Similarlimited, restricted

   Oppositeuncapped, unlimited

   Note

   The adjective does much of its work as the second half of a compound, as in snow-capped, where the hyphen joins the covering to the thing it covers. Standing alone it serves limits as readily as lids: a capped fee, a capped bottle. It can also be graded (more capped, most capped), which marks it as a description of a state rather than the past of the verb, the record of an act.

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