Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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culmination | Yes | No | No | No |
climax | Yes | No | Yes | No |
culmination (noun) | climax (noun) |
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a concluding action | the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse |
the decisive moment in a novel or play | the decisive moment in a novel or play |
(astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon | arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness |
a final climactic stage | the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding |
the most severe stage of a disease |
culmination (verb) | climax (verb) |
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end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage |