vverb.changeend, especially to reach a final or climactic stageSynset:climax
Examples:- The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace
Derivationally Related Form:culminationclimax
Hypernyms:cease end finish stop terminate
Inherited Hypernyms:culminateend
Direct Hyponyms:crowntop
Full Troponyms:crown
Sentence Frame:Something is ---ing PP
vverb.changebring to a head or to the highest pointExamples:- Seurat culminated pointillism
Derivationally Related Form:culmination
Hypernyms:end terminate
Inherited Hypernyms:culminateendchange
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s something | Something ---s somebody
vverb.socialreach the highest or most decisive pointDerivationally Related Form:culmination
Hypernyms:accomplish achieve attain reach
Inherited Hypernyms:culminateachievesucceed
Sentence Frame:Something is ---ing PP | Somebody ---s PP
vverb.motionreach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial bodyDerivationally Related Form:culmination
Hypernyms:arrive at attain gain hit make reach
Inherited Hypernyms:culminatereach
Sentence Frame:Something ---s
vverb.changerise to, or form, a summitExamples:- The helmet culminated in a crest
Hypernyms:form
Inherited Hypernyms:culminateformchange
Sentence Frame:Something is ---ing PP