climax /klīˈmaks/

1. (of a story, play, piece of music, etc) the most interesting and important or exciting part
2. A culmination
3. Sexual orgasm
4. The arranging of discourse in order of increasing strength (rhetoric)
5. Loosely, the last term of the rhetorical arrangement
6. The relatively stable culmination of a series of plant and animal communities developing in an area (also climax community)

1. To ascend in a climax
2. To culminate (in)
3. To experience sexual orgasm

To bring to a climax

climactˈic or climactˈical adjective

Relating to a climax

climactˈically adverb

• preconsumed
• preconsumes
• preconsuming
• precontract
• precontracted
• precontracting
• precontracts
• precook
• precooked
• precooking
• precooks
• precool
• precooled
• precooling
• precools
• precopulatory
• precordial
• precritical
• precurrer
• precurrers
• precurse
• precurses
• precursive
• precursor
• precursors