[
US
/ˈkɫaɪm/
]
[ UK /klˈaɪm/ ]
[ UK /klˈaɪm/ ]
VERB
-
slope upward
The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill -
go upward with gradual or continuous progress
Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house? -
improve one's social status
This young man knows how to climb the social ladder -
go up or advance
Sales were climbing after prices were lowered -
increase in value or to a higher point
prices climbed steeply
the value of our house rose sharply last year - move with difficulty, by grasping
NOUN
- an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
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an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
the car couldn't make it up the rise -
the act of climbing something
it was a difficult climb to the top
How To Use climb In A Sentence
- 'When I was a little girl I used to slip away from my nurse, climb to the top of my uncle's keep and sit in the crenel spaces. The Falcons of Montabard
- The rally has defied all odds and logic with only two, short interruptions since it began its climb in August 1982.
- We had an ice-cream and a little play on the slide and climbing frame.
- They sneak forward to climb up the small gap between the lorry 's cab and trailer. The Sun
- We gave ourselves a mountain to climb. The Sun
- He warned others about the live electric cables as they climbed to safety.
- Aides hovered round like royal courtiers before he made a fleeting appearance climbing on board the City of Chicago. Times, Sunday Times
- The climbers face certain death if the rescue today is unsuccessful.
- After climbing a steep rise for about twenty minutes the road crested, then began to slope downwards, taking a more westerly direction.
- The "fruitily perfumed pineapple weed" that came to Britain from Oregon in the late 19th century and then began to spread throughout the countryside, Mr. Mabey says, "exactly tracked the adoption of the treaded motor tyre, to which its ribbed seeds clung" as if the treads were the soles of climbing boots. Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling