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Culminate

To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.

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Accomplish 76% connected

To complete, as time or distance.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Achieve 76% connected

To carry on to a final close; to bring out into a perfected state; to accomplish; to perform; -- as, to achieve a feat, an exploit, an enterprise.

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Attain 76% connected

To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

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Cease 76% connected

To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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End 76% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Finish 76% connected

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Gain 76% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Reach 76% connected

To retch.

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Stop 76% connected

To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

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Terminate 76% connected

To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

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Manner of action 2

Crown 76% connected

of Crow

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Top 76% connected

A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…

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Derivationally related 4

Climax 74% connected

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Climax 74% connected

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

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Culmination 74% connected

The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

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Culmination 74% connected

The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

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Synonym 1

Climax 92% connected

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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