Climax can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| climax - To reach or bring to a climax. | ||
| climax - To orgasm; to reach orgasm. | ||
Noun |
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| climax - the decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play" | ||
| climax - 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" | ||
| climax - the most severe stage of a disease | ||
| climax - arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness | ||
| climax - the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse |
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| 1. | noun | The deathbed scene is the climax of the play. | |
| 2. | noun | The climax of the artist's career. | |
| 3. | noun | The audience sobbed throughout the climax of the movie. | |
| 4. | noun | The game came to a climax. | |
| 5. | noun | All voices were extinguished in the climax. | |
| 6. | noun | Tom doesn't know the difference between climax and climacteric. | |
| 7. | noun | My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. | |
| 8. | noun | I am reaching the climax. | |
| 9. | verb | Mary did not climax when she and Tom had their first sexual intercourse. |
| Sentence | |
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| noun | |
| The deathbed scene is the climax of the play. |
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| The climax of the artist's career. |
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| The audience sobbed throughout the climax of the movie. | |
| The game came to a climax. | |
| All voices were extinguished in the climax. | |
| Tom doesn't know the difference between climax and climacteric. | |
| My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. | |
| I am reaching the climax. | |
| verb | |
| Mary did not climax when she and Tom had their first sexual intercourse. | |