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US
/ˈkəɫmɪˌneɪt/
]
[ UK /kˈʌlmɪnˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /kˈʌlmɪnˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
-
bring to a head or to the highest point
Seurat culminated pointillism - reach the highest or most decisive point
-
end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace - reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body
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rise to, or form, a summit
The helmet culminated in a crest
How To Use culminate In A Sentence
- Gordon's eighth work of fiction is a triptych of lives, a weaving of three histories that culminates in a few days of crisis.
- His career culminated in his appointment as manager.
- Such thoughts reduce self-esteem which leads to depression and which can finally culminate in suicide.
- It was a portent of climatic things to come, which culminated in the worst floods in living memory in cities such as Prague and Dresden.
- The classical economist Von Hayek, who authored On the road to serfdom, warned about such interference by government in the economic order which can culminate the unbridle manipulation and pollution of the economic system. Emerging economies must reject handouts and bailouts capitalism
- Emotionally unstable, his aggressive attitude frequently culminates in violence.
- Emotionally unstable, his aggressive attitude frequently culminates in violence.
- It may culminate in chronic valvular disease and can lead to heart failure and ultimately death.
- The film culminates in a massive assault on the police precinct where the stoolie is being held.
- Besides these three sources measurably unprofessional and outside of music, or amateur, as we say now, there was the work of the professional musicians strictly so-called, who, from about 1100 in the old French school, commenced the development of what is now known as polyphony, which culminated in the hands of the Netherlanders, about 1580, Palestrina himself being one of the latest products of this school. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present