culminateverb
uk/ˈkʌl.mɪ.neɪt/us/ˈkʌl.mə.neɪt/culminate in/with sth
If an event or series of events culminates in something, it ends with it, having developed until it reaches this point:
My arguments with the boss got worse and worse, and finally culminated in my resignation.
Their many years of research have finally culminated in a cure for the disease.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Coming to an end
- come off
- come off sth
- come out
- come to a full stop idiom
- come to a head idiom
- come to sth
- come to the end of the road idiom
- dry up
- fizzle
- head
- land
- land up
- lapse
- let
- let up
- peter
- peter out
- road
- run
- wind up
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culmination
noun [ U ] uk/ˌkʌl.mɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ˌkʌl.məˈneɪ.ʃən/
Winning first prize was the culmination of years of practice and hard work.