'Climb' definitions:
Definition of 'climb'
(from WordNet)
noun
An upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade] [ant: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall]
noun
An event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) [syn: climb, climbing, mounting]
noun
The act of climbing something; "it was a difficult climb to the top" [syn: climb, mount]
verb
Go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?" [syn: climb, climb up, mount, go up]
verb
Move with difficulty, by grasping
verb
Go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered" [syn: wax, mount, climb, rise] [ant: wane]
verb
Slope upward; "The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill"
verb
Improve one's social status; "This young man knows how to climb the social ladder"
verb
Definition of 'Climb'
From: GCIDE
- Climb \Climb\ (kl[imac]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Climbed (kl[imac]md), Obs. or Vulgar Clomb (kl[o^]m); p. pr. & vb. n. Climbing.] [AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. kl[imac]fa, and E. cleave to adhere.]
- 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. [1913 Webster]
- Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Climb'
From: GCIDE
- Climb \Climb\, v. t. To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Climb'
From: GCIDE
- Climb \Climb\, n. The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. --Warburton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'climb'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandon,
- abruptness,
- acclivity,
- advance,
- anabasis,
- arise,
- ascend,
- ascension,
- ascent,
- back,
- back up,
- bank,
- budge,
- cant,
- careen,
- chandelle,
- change,
- change place,
- circle,
- clamber,
- clamber up,
- climb down,
- climb over,
- climb up,
- climbing,
- crawl,
- creep,
- decline,
- descend,
- descent,
- dip,
- drop,
- ebb,
- edge,
- elevation,
- escalade,
- escalate,
- fall,
- fall away,
- fall off,
- flow,
- fountain,
- gain altitude,
- get over,
- give up,
- go,
- go around,
- go down,
- go downhill,
- go round,
- go sideways,
- go up,
- go uphill,
- grade,
- grow,
- gush,
- gyrate,
- gyring up,
- hoick,
- inch,
- incline,
- increase,
- jet,
- jump,
- keel,
- lean,
- leap,
- levitation,
- list,
- mount,
- mounting,
- move,
- move over,
- pitch,
- plunge,
- precipitousness,
- progress,
- rake,
- ramp,
- regress,
- renounce,
- retreat,
- retrogress,
- rise,
- rising,
- rising ground,
- rocketing up,
- rotate,
- route,
- run,
- saltation,
- scale,
- scale the heights,
- scrabble up,
- scramble up,
- shelve,
- shift,
- shin,
- shin up,
- shinny,
- shooting up,
- sidle,
- sink,
- slant,
- slope,
- soar,
- soaring,
- spin,
- spout,
- spring,
- spurt,
- steepness,
- stir,
- stream,
- struggle up,
- subside,
- surge,
- surmount,
- swag,
- sway,
- takeoff,
- taking off,
- tilt,
- tip,
- trail,
- travel,
- twine,
- upclimb,
- upcoming,
- updraft,
- upgang,
- upgo,
- upgoing,
- upgrade,
- upgrowth,
- uphill,
- upleap,
- uplift,
- upping,
- uprisal,
- uprise,
- uprising,
- uprush,
- upshoot,
- upslope,
- upsurge,
- upsurgence,
- upsweep,
- upswing,
- vault,
- verticalness,
- wane,
- whirl,
- withdraw from,
- zoom,
- zooming
Words containing 'Climb'
- Climbed,
- Climbing,
- climb down,
- climb on,
- climb up,
- Climbing fern,
- Climbing fumitory,
- Climbing perch,
- To climb Parnassus,
- climb-down,
- climbing bittersweet,
- climbing boneset,
- climbing corydalis,
- climbing frame,
- climbing hempweed,
- climbing hydrangea,
- climbing iron,
- climbing lily,
- climbing maidenhair,
- climbing nightshade,
- climbing onion,
- climbing salamander,
- mountain climbing,
- rapid climb,
- rock climbing,
- social climbing,
- climbing maidenhair fern,
- semi-climbing,
- tendril-climbing,
- wild climbing hempweed,
- climbing bird's nest fern,
- climbing hemp-vine