Climb

Quick meaning: Climb is a verb meaning (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
2. (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
3. (intransitive) To enter, mount or otherwise assume a position in or on a conveyance.
4. (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
5. (intransitive) To practise the sport of climbing.
6. (intransitive) To jump high.
7. (transitive or intransitive) (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

Example Sentences

climbing a tree

Prices climbed steeply.

They climbed the mountain.

Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day.

Word Forms

• climbs
• climbing
• climbed
• climbest
• climbedst
• climbeth

Synonyms for climb

Depending on context, synonyms include scale, rise, raise, mount, upgrade, ascent.

Antonyms for climb

Common opposites include decline, fall, wane, descent, downslope, declivity.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ascent, upgrade, rise, raise, mounting, mount.

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