culminate

Verb
  1. End, especially to reach a final or climactic stage (synset 200486540)
    "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace"
    is a type of: cease, end, finish, stop, terminate - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
    subtypes: crown, top - be the culminating event
    same as: climax
  2. Bring to a head or to the highest point (synset 200354684)
    "Seurat culminated pointillism"
    is a type of: end, terminate - bring to an end or halt
  3. Reach the highest or most decisive point (synset 202532600)
    is a type of: accomplish, achieve, attain, reach - to gain with effort
  4. Reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body (synset 202025625)
    is a type of: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, make, reach - reach a destination, either real or abstract
  5. Rise to, or form, a summit (synset 200143860)
    "The helmet culminated in a crest"
    is a type of: form - assume a form or shape

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