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climacteric
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of CLIMACTERIC
a point in a chain of events at which an important change (as in one's fortunes) occurs <historians attempting to pinpoint the Roman Empire's climacteric, that precise moment when it began its long downhill slide>
Related Words break, capper, clincher, crusher, highlight, topper; conversion, metamorphosis, transfiguration, transformation, turnabout, turnaround; boiling point, breaking point, clutch, conjuncture, crisis, crossroad(s), crunch, crunch time, Dunkirk, emergency, exigency, extremity, flash point, head, juncture, zero hour
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