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(noun) the decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play" |
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Synonyms: culmination |
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Related Words: instant, minute, moment, second |
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(noun) arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness |
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Related Words: rhetorical device |
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(noun) the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding: "the climax of the artist's career"; "in the flood tide of his success" |
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Synonyms: flood tide |
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Related Words: juncture, occasion |
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(noun) the most severe stage of a disease |
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Related Words: degree, level, point, stage |
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(noun) the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse |
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Synonyms: coming, orgasm, sexual climax |
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Related Words: consummation, male orgasm |
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(verb) end, esp. to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace" |
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Synonyms: culminate |
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Related Words: cease, crown, end, finish, terminate, top |
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