climb

UK /klaɪm/ US /klaɪm/
verb 5noun 3

Definitions

verb

1

To ascend; rise; to go up.

Prices climbed steeply.

Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day.

2

To ascend; rise; to go up.

The hit song has climbed to the number one spot.

3

To mount; to move upwards on.

climbing a tree

They climbed the mountain.

4

To scale; to get to the top of something.

He is a curly-haired schoolboy barely in his teens, but 13-year-old Jordan Romero from California has become the youngest person to climb Mount Everest.

5

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

My legs were so stiff and my arms so sore that this morning I could barely climb out of bed.

A priest clad in a white robe climbs the tree and with a golden sickle cuts the mistletoe, which is caught in a white cloth.

noun

1

An act of climbing.

Make sure that you keep checking to see that everything remains safe throughout the climb.

2

The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.

The Mur de Péguère is a savage little climb, its last four kilometres a narrow tunnel of trees and excited spectators urging on the straining riders.

I guess the room wasn't so bad, except for the climb to get there. The stairs were destined to be a serious health hazard.

3

An effort of moving upward.

After a decade of prosperity, millions of Asians are likely to be pushed into poverty, and the climb out of poverty will stall for millions of others.

This memorial dedicated to those / Who persished on the climb

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