meaning of culminate
1. To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.
2. To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc.
3. Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals.
4. rise to, or form, a summit; "The helmet culminated in a
">crest"
Related Words
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