climb

/klaɪm/

noun

  1. 1

    An act of climbing.

  2. 2

    The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.

  3. 3

    An upwards struggle

verb

  1. 1

    To ascend; rise; to go up.

    “Prices climbed steeply.”
  2. 2

    To mount; to move upwards on.

    “Climbing a tree”
  3. 3

    To scale; to get to the top of something.

  4. 4

    To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.

  5. 5

    To practise the sport of climbing

  6. 6

    To jump high

  7. 7

    To move to a higher position on the social ladder.

  8. 8

    Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

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