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Verb culminate has 5 senses
- culminate, climax - end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace"
--1 is one way to end, stop, finish, terminate, cease
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
- culminate - bring to a head or to the highest point; "Seurat culminated pointillism"
--2 is one way to end, terminate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
- culminate - reach the highest or most decisive point
--3 is one way to achieve, accomplish, attain, reach
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
- culminate - of a celestial body: reach its highest altitude or the meridian
--4 is one way to reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- culminate - rise to, or form, a summit; "The helmet culminated in a crest"
--5 is one way to shape, form
Sample sentence:
Something is ----ing PP
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