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climactericsnounpl. of climacteric a point in a chain of events at which an important change (as in one's fortunes) occurshistorians attempting to pinpoint the Roman Empire's climacteric, that precise moment when it began its long downhill slide climaxes, corners, landmarks, mileposts, milestones, turning points, watersheds breaks, cappers, clinchers, crushers, highlights, toppersconversions, metamorphoses, transfigurations, transformations, turnabouts, turnaroundsboiling points, breaking points, clutches, conjunctures, crises, crossroads, crunches, crunch times, Dunkirks, emergencies, exigencies, extremities, flash points, heads, junctures, zero hours |