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climax
(redirected from climaxes)

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bring something to a close and bring something to an end; bring something to a climax
to end something; to cause something to reach its final point and stop. I think it is time to bring this matter to a close. The incident has been brought to a climax.
See also: bring, close

come to a close and come to an end; come to a climax

to end; to progress to an ending. The celebration came to an end about midnight.
See also: close, come


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The climaxes and build-ups are fucking amazing, not to mention the haunting drones of madness.
Gleefully exposing love and lust in mid-18th-century England, Grimm's Pleasure climaxes with a happy ending and a gay couple's marriage.
The story climaxes as a fuzzy-cheeked assassin is surrounded by the police at a mountain hideaway.
 
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