climb

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To climb is to go higher. When you ascend a mountain, you climb it, and when a song rises in popularity, it climbs the charts.

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To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

Noun
the act of climbing something; "it was a difficult climb to the top"

Noun
an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)

Noun
an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn''t make it up the rise"

Verb
increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"

Verb
improve one''s social status; "This young man knows how to climb the social ladder"

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Verb
go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"

Verb
go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"

Verb
move with difficulty, by grasping

Verb
slope upward; "The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill"

v. i.
To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

v. i.
To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.

v. i.
To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

v. t.
To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.

n.
The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.

Climb

Climb , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Climbed , Obs. or Vulgar Clomb ; p. pr. & vb. n. Climbing.] [AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. kl'c6fa, and E. cleave to adhere.] 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.

Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day.

3. (Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

Climb

Climb, v. t. To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.

Climb

Climb, n. The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton.

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.

The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.

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Usage Examples

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre more likely to climb onto bestseller lists even though I enjoy reading a wide variety of literature, both fiction and nonfiction.

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.