CLIMB

climb, mount

(noun) the act of climbing something; “it was a difficult climb to the top”

climb, climbing, mounting

(noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)

ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade

(noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road); “the car couldn’t make it up the rise”

rise, go up, climb

(verb) increase in value or to a higher point; “prices climbed steeply”; “the value of our house rose sharply last year”

climb

(verb) improve one’s social status; “This young man knows how to climb the social ladder”

wax, mount, climb, rise

(verb) go up or advance; “Sales were climbing after prices were lowered”

climb, climb up, mount, go up

(verb) go upward with gradual or continuous progress; “Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?”

climb

(verb) move with difficulty, by grasping

climb

(verb) slope upward; “The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

climb (third-person singular simple present climbs, present participle climbing, simple past (archaic) clomb or climbed, past participle (archaic) clumb or climbed)

(intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.

(transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.

(transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.

(transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.

(intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing

(intransitive) to jump high

To move to a higher position on the social ladder.

(botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

Usage notes

In the past, the forms clomb and clumb were encountered as simple past and past participle forms; these forms are now archaic or dialectal.

Synonyms

(get to the top of)

• scale

Noun

climb (plural climbs)

An act of climbing.

The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.

An upwards struggle

Source: Wiktionary

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Climb, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Climbed, Obs. or Vulgar Clomb (; p. pr. & vb. n. Climbing.] Etym: [AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. klifa, and E. cleave to adhere.]

1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. Dryden.

3. (Bot.)

Definition: To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

Climb, v. t.

Definition: To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.

Climb, n.

Definition: The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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