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verb-intransitive. To reach the highest point or degree; climax: habitual antagonism that culminated in open hostility.

verb-intransitive. To come to completion; end: Years of waiting culminated in a tearful reunion.

verb-intransitive. Astronomy To reach the highest point above an observer's horizon. Used of stars and other celestial bodies.

v. To bring to the point of greatest intensity or to completion; climax: The ceremony culminated a long week of preparation.

v. Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.

v. To reach the (physical) summit, highest point, peak etc.

v. To reach a climax; to come to the decisive point (especially as an end or conclusion).

v. To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.

verb-intransitive. To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.

verb-intransitive. To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc.

adj. Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals.

To come to or be on the meridian; be in the highest point of altitude, as a star, or, according to the usage of astronomers, reach either the highest or the lowest altitude.

To reach the highest point, apex, or summit, literally or figuratively.

n. Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth: applied to the growth of corals.

v. bring to a head or to the highest point

v. rise to, or form, a summit

v. reach the highest or most decisive point

v. end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage

v. reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body

""What this will do - and I hate to use the word culminate - but this will culminate in a strategic plan and then go into an implementation phase."

culminated    culminates    culminating   

terminate    end    form    attain    reach    accomplish    achieve    arrive at    hit    make   

culminant    culmination    culm   

culminated    culminating   

top    peak