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The Japanese word

極まる

is pronounced
kiwamaru | きわまる
means
to terminate, to reach an extreme, to be in a dilemma, to be at an end
Examples:
下品極まる盛り場に通いつける。
gehin kiwamaru sakariba ni kayoi tsukeru.
He haunts the lowest resorts.
家庭での生活は、今、考えると、みじめ極まるものであった。
katei de no seikatsu wa, ima, kangaeru to, mijime kiwamaru mono de atta.
When I think about it now, our family lived a very miserable life.
Examples sourced from tatoeba.org