The Clue
Culminate (5 letter answer)
The Answer
CEASE
Tags
Notes
The answer CEASE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 130 puzzles.
Related Clues
Desist
___ and desist
Discontinue
End
___-fire
Halt
Quit
Stop
Terminate
Break off
Cut out
Desist's partner
Die out
Fade out
Fire preceder
Have done with
Leave off
Partner of desist
Put an end to
Shut down
Word with desist
Do no more
Do not continue
"To ___ upon the midnight . . . ": Keats
Definition
CEASE as a noun:
1. (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end
CEASE as a verb:
1. (discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off) = put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
2. (end, stop, finish, terminate, cease) = have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"