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/ˈklæmbə/ · verb
(ambitransitive) To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion..
The children clambered over the jungle gym.
Now, neither for his harp, nor quiuer, cares: / Him ſelfe debaſing, beares the corded ſnares; / Or leades the dogs, or clambers mountaines; led / By lordly Loue, and flames by cuſtome fed.
Then ſaid the Shepherds, Thoſe that you ſee lie daſhed in pieces at the bottom of this Mountain, are they: and they have continued to this day unburied (as you ſee) for an example to others to take heed how they clamber too high, or how they come too near the brink of this Mountain.
The worn-out Lawyer clambers to the bench / That he may live at eaſe, and keep his wench; [...]
She threaded the narrow path, she passed the gloomy vineyard that clambers up the rock, and gained the lofty spot, green with moss and luxuriant foliage, where the dust of him [Virgil] who yet soothes and elevates the minds of men is believed to rest.
And scarce did manlier nerve uphold / The hero Zal in that fond hour, / Than wings the youth who, fleet and bold, / Now climbs the rocks to Hinda's bower. / See—light as up their granite steeps / The rock-goats of Arabia clamber, / Fearless from crag to crag he leaps, / And now is in the maiden's chamber.
He purchased his own boat, and made a home / For Annie, neat and nestlike, halfway up / The narrow street that clamber'd toward the mill.
Fancy the secret meetings between the perjuring husband and wife, the denials of having seen each other, the clambering in at bedroom windows, and the hiding in closets!
Use clamber when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Clamber means (ambitransitive) To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion..
Common synonyms include scrabble, scramble, struggle, sputter.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The children clambered over the jungle gym.
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