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 collapse heavily or helplessly.
To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unsconscious; to kill.
To lump; to throw together messily.
To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
To slouch or droop.
To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
A boggy place.
A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.