Advertisement
Advertisement
climb
[ klahym ]
verb (used without object)
- to go up or ascend, especially by using the hands and feet or feet only:
She climbed up the ladder.
Antonyms:
- to rise slowly by or as if by continued effort:
The car climbed laboriously to the top of the mountain.
- to ascend or rise:
The plane climbed rapidly and we were soon at 35,000 feet.
Temperatures climbed into the 80s yesterday.
- to slope upward:
The road climbs steeply up to the house.
- (of a plant) to ascend by twining or by means of tendrils, adhesive tissues, etc.:
The ivy climbed to the roof.
- to proceed or move by using the hands and feet, especially on an elevated place; crawl:
to climb along a branch;
to climb around on the roof.
- to ascend in prominence, fortune, etc.:
From lowly beginnings he climbed to the highest office in the land.
verb (used with object)
- to ascend, go up, or get to the top of, especially by the use of the hands and feet or feet alone or by continuous or strenuous effort:
to climb a rope;
to climb the stairs;
to climb a mountain.
Antonyms:
- to go to the top of and over:
The prisoners climbed the wall and escaped.
noun
- a climbing; an ascent by climbing:
It was a long climb to the top of the hill.
Antonyms:
- a place to be climbed:
That peak is quite a climb.
verb phrase
- to descend, especially by using both hands and feet:
She climbed down from the treehouse and went to wash up for supper.
- Chiefly British. to retreat from a policy, opinion, position in a debate, etc.:
He climbed down from that argument once he saw that it was based on incorrect data.
- Slang. to become tense or frantic:
After a week stuck inside the house, the kids were climbing the walls.
climb
/ ɪ /
verb
- also troften foll byup to go up or ascend (stairs, a mountain, etc)
- often foll by along to progress with difficulty
to climb along a ledge
- to rise to a higher point or intensity
the temperature climbed
- to incline or slope upwards
the road began to climb
- to ascend in social position
- (of plants) to grow upwards by twining, using tendrils or suckers, etc
- informal.foll by into to put (on) or get (into)
- to be a climber or mountaineer
noun
- the act or an instance of climbing
- a place or thing to be climbed, esp a route in mountaineering
Derived Forms
- ˈ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ·· adjective
- -·Բ adjective
- non··· adjective
- ԴDz··Բ adjective
- · verb (used with object) reclimbed reclimbing
- un··· adjective
- ܲ· adjective
- ܲ··Բ adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of climb1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Security camera video shows the suspects walking by a pool at a home on Waldo Place and ducking out of sight behind a trampoline, before climbing up a hill.
At some point, one climbed a post and became known to us ever onward as the fence lizard.
Sales volumes climbed 0.4% last month, the Office for National Statistics said, with the sunshine helping a variety of sectors.
From early next week the temperatures continue to climb as the wind changes direction to a south-easterly and we tap into some warmer air from the near continent.
He said he climbed through a window to intervene and was left with various injuries all over his body, including losing the use of two fingers on his left hand.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse