| VERB | change | culminate, climax | end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | culminate | bring to a head or to the highest point | |
| social | culminate | reach the highest or most decisive point | |
| motion | culminate | reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body | |
| change | culminate | rise to, or form, a summit |
| Sounds | kah'lmihney.t | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | |
| Meaning | end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP | |
| Example | "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace" | |
| Synonym | climax | |
| Narrower | crown, top | Be the culminating event |
| Broader | end, stop, finish, terminate, cease | Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense |
| Spanish | culminar | |
| Catalan | culminar | |
| Nouns | culmination | a concluding action |
| culmination | the decisive moment in a novel or play | |
| culmination | a final climactic stage | |
| Meaning | Bring to a head or to the highest point. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s somebody | |
| Example | "Seurat culminated pointillism" | |
| Broader | end, terminate | Bring to an end or halt |
| Spanish | culminar | |
| Catalan | culminar | |
| Nouns | culmination | a final climactic stage |
| Meaning | reach the highest or most decisive point. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Broader | achieve, accomplish, attain, reach | To gain with effort |
| Spanish | culminar | |
| Nouns | culmination | the decisive moment in a novel or play |
| culmination | a final climactic stage | |
| Meaning | reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Broader | reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain | Reach a destination / destination, either real or abstract |
| Spanish | culminar | |
| Nouns | culmination | (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon |
| Meaning | Rise to, or form, a summit. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP | |
| Example | "The helmet culminated in a crest" | |
| Broader | form | assume a form or shape |
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