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verbend, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
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nounthe moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
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nounthe highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
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nounthe decisive moment in a novel or play
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nounarrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulnesstype of:
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nounthe most severe stage of a disease
Definition that contains climax
- suspense excited anticipation of an approaching climax
- succession (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established
- climactic consisting of or causing a climax
- anticlimactic coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot
- ecological succession (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established