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Definition of culminate:

To be vertical; to come to the meridian; to reach the highest point; to top or crown.

Synonyms:

result in, crest, crown, climax, crown, peak, excite.

ceases (part of speech: verb)
- discontinue,
- cease,
- quit,
- pause,
- close,
- break,
- remit,
- interrupt,
- stay,
- stop,
- suspend,
- terminate,
- desist,
- halt,
- end,
- abandon,
- refrain
end (part of speech: verb)
- conclude,
- expire,
- finish,
- cease,
- end,
- wrap up,
- pass away,
- checkmate,
- cap,
- finalize,
- terminate,
- close,
- decease,
- accomplish,
- complete,
- pass on,
- halt,
- stop,
- exit,
- die
complete (part of speech: verb)
- conclude,
- arrive,
- finalize,
- fill,
- close,
- achieve,
- fulfill,
- execute,
- graduate,
- integrate,
- terminate,
- unify,
- complete,
- end,
- consummate,
- accomplish,
- finish
cease (part of speech: verb)
- discontinue,
- cease,
- quit,
- pause,
- close,
- break,
- remit,
- interrupt,
- stay,
- stop,
- suspend,
- terminate,
- desist,
- halt,
- end,
- abandon,
- refrain

Usage examples:

" These demands are the essential outcome of the military situation; they culminate in the cession of British India to Russia.

- "The Coming Conquest of England", August Niemann.
It is the work of men who have a natural difficulty in conceiving a war plan that does not culminate in a Jena or a Sedan.

- "Some Principles of Maritime Strategy", Julian Stafford Corbett.
How one thing is to follow another- and another to lead to another- how everything is to culminate in marriage or a broken heart, and not a bit of the whole to be true, I cannot conceive; and as for poetry, it seems to me an absolute impossibility to make verses rhyme.

- "Mr. Hogarth's Will", Catherine Helen Spence.