climb
noun
1. an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
Similar word(s): acclivity, ascent, raise, rise, upgrade
Definition categories: object, incline, side, slope
2. an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
Similar word(s): climbing, mounting
Definition categories: event, ascension, ascent, rise, rising
3. the act of climbing something
- it was a difficult climb to the top
Similar word(s): mount
Definition categories: act, ascending, ascension, ascent, rise
verb
1. go upward with gradual or continuous progress
- Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?
Similar word(s): mount
Definition categories: motion, arise, lift, rise, uprise
2. move with difficulty, by grasping
Definition categories: motion, move
3. go up or advance
- Sales were climbing after prices were lowered
Similar word(s): mount, rise, wax
Definition categories: change, increase
4. slope upward
- The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill
Definition categories: motion, incline, pitch, slope
5. improve one's social status
- This young man knows how to climb the social ladder
Definition categories: change, advance, progress
6. increase in value or to a higher point
- prices climbed steeply
Similar word(s): rise
Definition categories: change, grow
Sentences with climb as a verb:
- They climbed the mountain.
- Climbing a tree