Usually means: Reaching the peak of excitement.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. climaxing: Merriam-Webster
  2. climaxing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. climaxing: Vocabulary.com
  4. climaxing: Wordnik
  5. climaxing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. climaxing: Wiktionary
  7. climaxing: Dictionary.com
  8. climaxing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Climaxing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. climaxing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. climaxing: Legal dictionary
  2. climaxing: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. climaxing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. climaxing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. climaxing: Idioms

(Note: See climax as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Climax)

noun:  (originally rhetoric) A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
noun:  (obsolete) An instance of such an ascending series.
noun:  (narratology) The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
noun:  (now often) A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly:
noun:  (rhetoric, imprecise) The final term of a rhetorical climax.
noun:  (ecology) The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.
noun:  (euphemistic) The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense).
verb:  To form the climax to; to be the climax of.
noun:  A village in the Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community and mining location in Lake County, Colorado.
noun:  A small town in Decatur County, Georgia.
noun:  A minor city in Greenwood County, Kansas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
noun:  A village and township in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
noun:  A minor city in Polk County, Minnesota.
noun:  A hamlet in Greene County, New York.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Guilford County and Randolph County, North Carolina.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Morrow County, Ohio.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Oregon.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
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