To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense).
A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
The final term of a rhetorical climax.
The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.
A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series
The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.
To reach a highest degree or maximum.
To pry; to peep slyly.
To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.
To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
To cause to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views (ellipsis of peak trans).
To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
To become sick or wan.
At the greatest extent; maximum.
bad or unfortunate.
Unlucky; unfortunate
Maximal, quintessential, archetypical; representing the culmination of its type.
Bad
The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.
The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.