climaxes Definition

climax
noun climaxes

1. The high point or culmination of a series of events or of an experience.

Thesaurus: culmination, high point, peak, summit, apogee, zenith, top, acme, head; Antonym: nadir.
2. A sexual orgasm.

Thesaurus: orgasm, fulfilment.
3a. rhetoric.
The arrangement of a series of sentences, etc, in order of increasing strength;
3b. loosely
The final term of the arrangement.

verb, tr & intr climaxes, climaxed, climaxing

1. To come or bring to a climax.

Thesaurus: culminate, finish, conclude, accomplish, fulfil.
intr
2. To experience sexual orgasm.

Derivative: climactic
adj

Of or representing a decisive or high point in a series of events
Thesaurus: decisive, critical, crucial; crowning, supreme, central, main, paramount; Antonym: trivial, bathetic.

Derivative: climactically
adverb

Etymology: 16c: Latin, from Greek klimax ladder or climax.