climb

Plural: climbs

Noun

• an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
• an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
• the act of climbing something
  • "it was a difficult climb to the top"
• An act of climbing.
• The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
• An effort of moving upward.

Verb

Verb Forms: climbed, clomb, climbing, climbs

• To ascend, especially by using the hands and feet.
• go upward with gradual or continuous progress
  • "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"
• move with difficulty, by grasping
• go up or advance
  • "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
• slope upward
  • "The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill"
• improve one's social status
  • "This young man knows how to climb the social ladder"
• increase in value or to a higher point
  • "prices climbed steeply"
• To ascend; rise; to go up.
• To mount; to move upwards on.
• To scale; to get to the top of something.
• To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
• To practise the sport of climbing.
• To jump high.
• To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
• To move to a higher position on a chart, table, society, etc.
• Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

Examples

• climbing a tree
• His score began to CLIMB steadily after he started using more strategic placements.
• My legs were so stiff and my arms so sore that this morning barely could climb out of bed.
• Prices climbed steeply.
• The hit song has climbed to the number one spot.
• They climbed the mountain.

Synonyms

acclivity, ascent, climb up, climbing, go up, mount, mounting, raise, rise, upgrade, wax, scale

Antonyms

descent, wane

Anagrams of climb