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climax
A	noun
	1	orgasm, climax, sexual climax, coming
			the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
		Category Tree: act; human action; human activity ╚action ╚change ╚change of state ╚termination; ending; conclusion ╚completion; culmination; closing; windup; mop up ╚consummation ╚orgasm, climax, sexual climax, coming ╚male orgasm
	2	climax, culmination
			the decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play"
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚measure; quantity; amount ╚point; point in time ╚moment; minute; second; instant ╚climax, culmination
	3	climax
			arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
		Category Tree: abstraction ╚relation ╚social relation ╚communication ╚expressive style; style ╚device ╚rhetorical device ╚climax
	4	climax, flood tide
			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"
		Category Tree: event ╚happening; occurrence; natural event ╚juncture; occasion ╚climax, flood tide
	5	climax
			the most severe stage of a disease
		Category Tree: state ╚degree; level; stage; point ╚climax
B	verb
	1	culminate, climax
			end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace"
		Category Tree: end; stop; finish; terminate; cease ╚culminate, climax ╚crown; top

climax / to miss out on
climax of a joke
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