Word

culminate, v.
(culminated, culminates, culminating)
freq. cnt. 9

end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
<verb.change> freq. cnt.: 10 freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 2

climax culminate

sample sentences

"The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace"

verb frames

Something is ----ing PP

verb frames

Something is ----ing PP

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

culmination culmination culmination

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

climax climax

semantic pointers

hypernym

end, finish, cease, terminate, stop

hyponym

crown, top

bring to a head or to the highest point
<verb.change> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

culminate

sample sentences

"Seurat culminated pointillism"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

culmination

semantic pointers

hypernym

end, terminate

rise to, or form, a summit
<verb.change>

culminate

sample sentences

"The helmet culminated in a crest"

verb frames

Something is ----ing PP

semantic pointers

hypernym

form

reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body
<verb.motion>

culminate

verb frames

Something ----s

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

culmination

semantic pointers

hypernym

reach, arrive at, hit, gain, make, attain

reach the highest or most decisive point
<verb.social>

culminate

verb frames

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

culmination culmination

semantic pointers

hypernym

achieve, reach, attain, accomplish