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- as the war reached its climacteric phase, the atrocities dramatically increased, both in number and brutality
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- apocalyptic
- (also apocalyptical),
- climactic
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climacteric
nounSynonyms of climacteric (Entry 2 of 2)
- historians attempting to pinpoint the Roman Empire's climacteric, that precise moment when it began its long downhill slide
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“Climacteric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/climacteric. Accessed 2 Oct. 2022.
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The first known use of climacteric was in 1582
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