Definition
to culminate (in a disaster): to end, to finish, to close, to conclude, to climax (in a disaster)
After all our hard work, one mistake and the whole project culminates in disaster!
a culmination: a climax, a conclusion, a completion, a finale
The movie's culmination is that the whole film was just a dream.
- "Around the same period that Shmike's stock prices started plummeting, the company received an avalanche of negative press, culminating in a public demonstration outside of a Shmike outlet store right here in downtown San Francisco."
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