come to a head
Verb
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Verb
come to a head
- (idiomatic) To rapidly reach a turning point or climax.
- The escalating crisis between England and her American colonies came to a head when fighting broke out in 1775.
- (idiomatic) To suddenly reveal that which has lain latent for a time.
- His festering anger came to a head after the incident.
- (idiomatic) To suddenly make mature or perfected that which was inchoate or imperfectly formed.
- (medicine, of an abscess) To reach its final stage.
- Russian: назре́ть
- Russian: нарва́ть
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