🏔️culminate

verb
/ˈkʌl.mɪ.neɪt/

Meaning

to reach the highest point or final stage
To reach the final or climactic stage of a process or activity.
To reach the highest point or final stage; to result in.

Example Sentences

The negotiations culminated in a successful agreement.

Years of hard work culminated in his success.

The negotiations culminated in an agreement.

Synonyms

conclude, peak, climax, result, end, Conclude, Reach, Peak
Entry 1
conclude, peak, climax, result, end
Entry 2
Conclude, Reach, Peak
Entry 3
conclude, peak, result

Antonyms

begin, start, initiate, Begin, Start, Initiate, commence
Entry 1
begin, start, initiate
Entry 2
Begin, Start, Initiate
Entry 3
begin, initiate, commence

Collocations

culminate in, culminate with, project culminates, efforts culminate

Related Vocabularies

To officially prevent someone from doing something.
To formally begin or introduce something, especially with a ceremony.
to offer a certain amount of money for something, especially at an auction
to exclude someone socially or vote against their membership in a group or club
to reveal something that was hidden or secret
to increase or make something four times as much or as many

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