culminate

cul·mi·nate  (klm-nt)

v.intr. cul·mi·nat·ed, cul·mi·nat·ing, cul·mi·nates

1.

a. To reach the highest point or degree; climax: habitual antagonism that culminated in open hostility.

b. To come to completion; end: Years of waiting culminated in a tearful reunion.

2. Astronomy To reach the highest point above an observer's horizon. Used of stars and other celestial bodies.

v.tr.

To bring to the point of greatest intensity or to completion; climax: The ceremony culminated a long week of preparation.

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[Late Latin culminre, culmint-, from Latin culmen, culmin-, summit; see kel-² in Indo-European roots.]

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culmi·nation n.

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culminate

Verb

[-nating, -nated] to reach the highest point or climax: the parade culminated in a memorial service [Latin culmen top]

culmination n

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	culminate - end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace" climax 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"
	2.	culminate - bring to a head or to the highest point; "Seurat culminated pointillism" terminate, end - bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
	3.	culminate - reach the highest or most decisive point achieve, attain, accomplish, reach - to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks"
	4.	culminate - reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body arrive at, reach, attain, gain, hit, make - reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"
	5.	culminate - rise to, or form, a summit; "The helmet culminated in a crest" form - assume a form or shape; "the water formed little beads"

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culminate

verb end up, end, close, finish, conclude, wind up, climax, terminate, come to a head, come to a climax, rise to a crescendo

Translations

culminate [ˈkʌlmɪneɪt] vi to culminate in → culminar en

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culminate [ˈkʌlmɪneɪt] vi to culminate in → finir or se terminer par (= lead to); mener à

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culminate [ˈkʌlmɪneɪt] vi to culminate in → gipfeln in +dat

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culminate [ˈkʌlmɪneɪt] vi to culminate in → culminare con