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1. The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
   "the climax of the artist's career"
   - flood tide
    
2. The decisive moment in a novel or play
   "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play"
   - culmination
    
3. The moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
   - orgasm, sexual climax, coming
    
4. The most severe stage of a disease
    
5. Arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness

1. End, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
   - culminate

Derived forms: climaxed, climaxes, climaxing

See also: climactic

Type of: cease, consummation, degree, end, finish, instant, juncture, level, minute, moment, occasion, point, rhetorical device, second, stage, stop, terminate

Part of: story

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