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climax (enc)

Climax

Noun1.climax - 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"
juncture, occasion - an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions"
2.climax - the decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play"
story - a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"
moment, instant, minute, second - a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began"
3.climax - the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
consummation - the act of bringing to completion or fruition
male orgasm - an orgasm accompanied by the sensation of ejaculation of semen
4.climax - the most severe stage of a disease
degree, stage, level, point - a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?"
5.climax - arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
rhetorical device - a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
Verb1.climax - end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace"
crown, top - be the culminating event; "The speech crowned the meeting"
end, cease, terminate, finish, stop - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

 

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