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clambering

clambering is the present participle and gerund of clamber.

Meaning of clamber

Verb

clamber (third-person singular simple present clambers, present participle clambering, simple past and past participle clambered)

  1. (ambitransitive) To climb (something) with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
    • The children clambered over the jungle gym.
    Synonyms:
    scrabble, scramble

See all 2 meanings of clamber

Noun

clambering (plural clamberings)

  1. The act of one who clambers.
    • It was his hope that he should find something of archaeologic compensation for his clamberings. He found Noah's Ark.1923, Charles Fort, New Lands

Adjective

clambering (comparative more clambering, superlative most clambering)

  1. Climbing
    • Its hills of smiling green swelled gently one above another, crowned with lofty trees of luxuriant growth; some pointing their tapering foliage towards the clouds, which were gloriously transparent; and others loaded with a verdant burthen of clambering vines, bowing their branches to the earth...1821, Washington Irving, A History of New-York: From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty; Containing, Among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of...
    • The panes are ruddy through the clambering vines
      And blushing leaves, that Summer intertwines
      In warmer tints than e'er luxuriant Spring,
      O'er flower-embosom'd roof led wandering.1829, Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American Poetry: With Critical and Biographical Notices. In Three Volumes, page 92

Forms of clambering

Noun
pluralclamberings
Adjective
comparativemore clambering
superlativemost clambering

Questions about clambering

What does clambering mean?
Clambering means the act of one who clambers.
What is clambering the present participle and gerund of?
Clambering is the present participle and gerund of clamber.
What part of speech is clambering?
Clambering can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of clambering?
The plural of clambering is clamberings.

Words near clambering in the dictionary

  1. clambered
  2. clamberer
  3. clamberers
  4. clamberest
  5. clambereth
  6. clambering
  7. clamberings
  8. clambers
  9. clambersome
  10. clambroth
  11. clambroths

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