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the decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play" arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; "the climax of the artist''s career"; "in the flood tide of his success" the most severe stage of a disease the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace" |
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