極きわまる

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

reach an extreme; reach a limit; culminate

Intransitive use for a state, degree, or process reaching its utmost point or final limit; the 'come to an end' idea is usually a culmination rather than simply stopping.

• 会かい場じょうの混こん乱らんは極きわまった。

  The confusion at the venue reached an extreme.

• 彼かれの横おう暴ぼうはここに極きわまった。

  His tyranny culminated at this point.

auxiliary verb, noun-modifying (irregular), godan verb (-ru)

extremely; utterly

Used after an adjectival noun as a stiff prenominal modifier, as in 失礼極まる態度 or 退屈極まる話. It describes something as extremely or intolerably so.

• 失しつ礼れい極きわまる態たい度どに、皆みんながあきれた。

  Everyone was appalled by the extremely rude attitude.

• 退たい屈くつ極きわまる会かい議ぎが三さん時じ間かんも続つづいた。

  The utterly boring meeting went on for three hours.

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

be stuck; be in a dilemma; be at a loss

Often written 窮まる and commonly seen in set or literary-feeling expressions such as 進退窮まる, where someone has no good way forward.

• 資し金きんも尽つき、進しん退たい窮きわまった。

  With the funds exhausted, we were completely stuck.

godan verb (-ru), intransitive verb

be decided; be settled

Rare or old-fashioned for something being decided or settled; in ordinary modern Japanese, 決まる is usually the natural verb.

• 古ふるい文ぶん章しょうでは、「評ひょう議ぎが極きわまる」が「評ひょう議ぎが決きまる」という意い味みで使つかわれることがある。

  In older writing, 評議が極まる can be used to mean that deliberations are settled.