climb Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
    acclivity; upgrade; raise; rise; ascent.
    • the car couldn't make it up the rise
  2. noun an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
    climbing; mounting.
  3. noun the act of climbing something
    mount.
    • it was a difficult climb to the top
  4. verb go upward with gradual or continuous progress
    climb up; mount; go up.
    • Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?
  5. verb move with difficulty, by grasping
  6. verb go up or advance
    mount; rise; wax.
    • Sales were climbing after prices were lowered
  7. verb slope upward
    • The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill
  8. verb improve one's social status
    • This young man knows how to climb the social ladder
  9. verb increase in value or to a higher point
    rise; go up.
    • prices climbed steeply
    • the value of our house rose sharply last year

WordNet


Climb intransitive verb
Etymology
AS. climban; akin to OHG. chlimban, G. & D. klimmen, Icel. klifa, and E. cleave to adhere.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Climbed obsolete or Vulgar Clomb ; present participle & verbal noun Climbing
Definitions
  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. Dryden.
  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 transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
Climb noun
Definitions
  1. The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing. Warburton.

Webster 1913