climax
verb/ˈklaɪmæks/
/ˈklaɪmæks/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they climax | /ˈklaɪmæks/ /ˈklaɪmæks/ |
| he / she / it climaxes | /ˈklaɪmæksɪz/ /ˈklaɪmæksɪz/ |
| past simple climaxed | /ˈklaɪmækst/ /ˈklaɪmækst/ |
| past participle climaxed | /ˈklaɪmækst/ /ˈklaɪmækst/ |
| -ing form climaxing | /ˈklaɪmæksɪŋ/ /ˈklaɪmæksɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to come to or form the best, most exciting, or most important point in something
- climax with/in something The festival will climax on Sunday with a gala concert.
- (especially North American English) The sensational verdict climaxed a six-month trial.
- [intransitive] to have an orgasm
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in rhetoric): from late Latin, from Greek klimax ‘ladder, climax’. The sense ‘culmination’ arose in the late 18th cent.
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