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Another word for climax

climax Synonyms

climax

n.

peak, apex, highest point, culmination, acme, pinnacle, meridian, intensification, crest, zenith, height, summit, apogee, extremity, limit, pitch, ascendancy, utmost extent, highest degree, point of highest development, turning point, crowning point, turning of the tide, decisive moment, defining moment, crisis, orgasm, ne plus ultra (Latin); see also maximum, top 1.

Antonyms anticlimax, depression*, nadir. See syn. study at summit.summit.

climax Synonyms

climax

v.

culminate, tower, end, top, top off, cap, cap off, crown, conclude, rise to a crescendo, reach a peak, come to a head, bring to a head, reach the zenith, peak, come to bring to a climax, finish, accomplish, fulfill, consummate; see also achieve 1, complete 1.

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Another word for climax

noun

The highest point or state:

acme, apex, apogee, crest, crown, culmination, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, top, zenith. (Informal) payoff. (Medicine) fastigium. See high

verb

To reach or bring to a climax:

cap, crest, crown, culminate, peak, top (off or out). See excite

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That event was the climax of a long series of horrors.
During the last months of President Uriburu's administration, matters had reached a climax, especially in connexion with the delimitation in a district known as the Puna de Atacama.
The polished stone work is superb, finding its climax in Porto Rico, which seems to have been the sacred island of the Caribs.
Ford's tract of Honor Triumphant, or the Peeres Challenge (printed 1606 and reprinted by the Shakespeare Society with the Line of Life, in 1843), and the simultaneously published verses The Monarches Meeting, or the King of Denmarkes Welcome into England, exhibit him as occasionally meeting the festive demands of court and nobility; and a kind of moral essay by him, entitled A Line of Life (printed 1620), which contains references to Raleigh, ends with a climax of fulsome praise to the address of King James I.
The climax of iniquity was the murder of Jehoiada's son Zechariah.

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