climbed

Verb

climb (third-person singular simple present climbs, present participle climbing, simple past climbed or (archaic) clomb, past participle climbed or (archaic) clomb or (archaic) clumb)

1. (intransitive) To traverse a slope or contour, either upwards (ascending) or downwards (descending).
   • after I had found (the goats') haunts a little, I laid wait in this manner for them: I observed if they saw me in the valleys, though they were upon the rocks, they would run away, as in a terrible fright; but if they were feeding in the valleys, and I was upon the rocks, they took no notice of me...1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe Chapter 4
2. (intransitive) (literally or figuratively): To ascend; rise; to go up.
   • Black vapours climb aloft, and cloud the day.1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
   1. (intransitive) To ascend in a non-physical or figurative sense.
      • The hit song has climbed to the number one spot.
   2. (figuratively, intransitive) To move to a higher position on a chart or hierarchy.
      • Prices climbed steeply.
3. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
   • climbing a tree
4. (transitive) 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.2010 May 22, David Harrison, “American boy, 13, is youngest person to climb Everest”, in Daily Telegraph online

   Synonyms:

   scale

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