Culminate

Definition: Culminate

Culminate

Verb

1. End, esp. to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace".

2. Bring to a head or to the highest point; "Seurat culminated pointillism".

3. Reach the highest or most decisive point.

4. Of a celestial body: reach its highest altitude or the meridian.

5. Rise to, or form, a summit; "The helmet culminated in a crest".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "culminate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

Literature

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Synonym: Culminate

Completion

Ripen, culminate; come to a head, come to a crisis; come to its end; die a natural death, die of old age; run its course, run one's race; touch the goal, reach the goal, attain the goal; reach; (arrive); get in the harvest.

Height

Verb: be high; Adjective: tower, soar, command; hover, hover over, fly over;orbit, be in orbit; cap, culminate; overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount; perch, surmount; cover; overtop; (be superior); stand on tiptoe.

Summit

Verb: culminate, crown, top; overtop; (be superior to).

Superiority

Verb: be superior; Adjective: exceed, excel, transcend; outdo, outbalance, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod; pass, surpass, get ahead of; over-top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch; top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out; beat hollow; outstrip; eclipse, throw into the shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's nose out of joint; have the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the advantage; turn the scale, kick the beam; play first fiddle; (importance); preponderate, predominate, prevail; precede, take precedence, come first; come to a head, culminate; beat; all others, bear the palm; break the record; take the cake.

Crosswords: Culminate

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Health

TSEs tend to progress rapidly and usually culminate in death over the course of a few months to a few years. (references)

Economic History

Australia

The Commission's use of its inquiry and monitoring powers culminate in a public report and, where necessary, recommendations to the Government. (references)

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Albanian

arrij kulmin (climax, flower, peak). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تكبد (culmination, suffer, sufferance, sustain), ‏تأوج يبلغ الذروة, ‏بلغ الأوج. (various references)

Bulgarian 

кулминирам, достигам най-високата си точка. (various references)

Chinese 

达到高潮 (Culminated, Culminating). (various references)

Czech

vrcholit, kulminovat (come to a head). (various references)

Finnish

kohota huippuunsa (reach its culmination), huipentua (reach its climax). (various references)

French

culminer. (various references)

German

kulminieren (reach its peak), gipfeln (tipping, topping). (various references)

Greek 

μεσουρανώ (be at the zenith), αποκορυφώνομαι (culminate in). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"�'יע לפס�'�" (peak, top). (various references)

Hungarian

tetõfokára hág, kulminál (to culminate). (various references)

Indonesian

mencapai puncak. (various references)

Italian

culminare (acmes). (various references)

Korean 

남중하십시�". (various references)

Manx

cheet gys y vullagh (crest). (various references)

Pig Latin

ulminatecay

Portuguese

culminar (climax), atingir (accomplish, achieve, arrive, attain, catch, gain, get, get around, get hold of, hit, import, measure up to, overtake, reach, run, run across, run to, smite, strike, touch). (various references)

Romanian

culmina. (various references)

Russian 

достигать высшей точки. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kulminirati (hit the ceiling). (various references)

Spanish

culminar (conclude, reach). (various references)

Swedish

kulminera. (various references)

Turkish

sonuçlanmak (be at an end, be concluded, come out, conclude, end, end up, eventuate, finish, go, issue, redound, turn out, work out), meridyen üzerinde bulunmak, doruğa ulaşmak (come to a head, peak). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "culminate": culminated, culminates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Culminate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calminate, cluminate, Coulinats, cullminate, pulmonale. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: neumatic.

-2 letters: ailment, aliment, alumine, alunite, calumet, cauline, climate, cutline, linecut, lunatic, melanic, metical, nematic, tunicae, tunicle.

-3 letters: acetin, acetum, aculei, acumen, aecium, almuce, alumin, alumni, amulet, anemic, atelic, auntie, camlet, cantle, catlin, centai, cental, centum, cinema, client, cuneal, eluant, enatic, entail, etamin, iceman, incult, inlace, inmate, lacune, lament, lancet, launce, lectin, lentic.

+1 letter: calumniate, culminated, culminates.

+2 letters: calumniated, calumniates, curtailment, multiagency, retinaculum.

+3 letters: antileukemic, counterclaim, curtailments, emasculating, emasculation, incommutable, incomputable, multichannel, multinuclear, multivalence, unacclimated.

+4 letters: communalities, conceptualism, counterclaims, documentalist, documentarily, emasculations, hermeneutical, intercommunal, malfunctioned, masculinities, multibranched, multichannels, multinucleate, multivalences, mutagenically, noncumulative, pneumatically, pneumatolytic, uncomplicated, unproblematic, unsymmetrical, vermiculation.

+5 letters: conceptualisms, counterclaimed, cumulativeness, documentalists, emulsification, intermolecular, intramolecular, macroevolution, metalinguistic, multinucleated, municipalities, semifunctional, ultramasculine, unacclimatized, unemphatically, vermiculations.