climax
noun
the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination.
were climaxing
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past progressiveof climax.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In company with two other eminent "tree-men" he had been spending the summer in the study of the forests of Canada and the three were "climaxing," as they said, in the forests of Alaska.
From Alaska Days with John Muir by Samual Hall Young
