Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

Prices climbed steeply.

Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day.

Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, / […] / Remembering shocks of surf that clomb and fell, / Spume-sliding down the baffled decuman, […]

So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn.

After Bridge of Orchy, the line climbs steeply into the wild country of Rannoch Moor. The railway builders chose a different route across the moor from the road - we are completely on our own up here.

climbing a tree

They climbed the mountain.

Other Hooverian devices become familiar too. Characters often have names that are so obscure they barely seem like real names (Ryle, Lowen, Chastin, Atlas, Crew) but might wind up climbing the baby name list — now you know why — in a few years’ time.

Word Forms

• climbs
• climbing
• climbed
• clomb
• clumb
• no-table-tags
• glossary
• climb
• climbest
• climbedst
• climbeth
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Synonyms for climb

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When Should You Use Climb?

Use climb when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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