culminate
verb /ˈkʌlmɪneɪt/
/ˈkʌlmɪneɪt/
[intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they culminate | /ˈkʌlmɪneɪt/ /ˈkʌlmɪneɪt/ |
| he / she / it culminates | /ˈkʌlmɪneɪts/ /ˈkʌlmɪneɪts/ |
| past simple culminated | /ˈkʌlmɪneɪtɪd/ /ˈkʌlmɪneɪtɪd/ |
| past participle culminated | /ˈkʌlmɪneɪtɪd/ /ˈkʌlmɪneɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form culminating | /ˈkʌlmɪneɪtɪŋ/ /ˈkʌlmɪneɪtɪŋ/ |
- culminate (in/with something) to end with a particular result, or at a particular point
- a gun battle which culminated in the death of two police officers
- Months of hard work culminated in success.
- Their summer tour will culminate at a spectacular concert in London.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryCulminate is used with these nouns as the subject:- process
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in astronomy and astrology): from late Latin culminat- ‘exalted’, from the verb culminare, from culmen ‘summit’.