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declimb

declimb verb: to climb down.

Verb

declimb (third-person singular simple present declimbs, present participle declimbing, simple past and past participle declimbed)

  1. (ambitransitive, nonstandard, rare) To climb down.
    • It has saddled us with an insoluble puzzle: How to declimb from heights that make us dizzy and that we cannot endure forever without slipping into an incalculable slide that we can [not] arrest with all existing brakes[…]1965, United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, Subcommittee on International Finance, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session, Hearings on Balance of Payments, part 2, page 949
    • I had been told that, if the principal really didn't like you, he would assign you five classrooms, one for each period and each on different floors, so that you might find yourself climbing and declimbing four flights of stairs, plus descending to the half basement, whose windows were half-covered...2010, Jane Juska, A Round-Heeled Woman, pages 183–184

Forms of declimb

third-person singular presentdeclimbs
present participledeclimbing
past participledeclimbed
pastdeclimbed

Origin of declimb

From de- + climb.

Words that rhyme with declimb

31 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about declimb

What does declimb mean?
Declimb means to climb down.
What part of speech is declimb?
Declimb is a verb.
What is the past tense of declimb?
The past tense of declimb is declimbed.

Words near declimb in the dictionary

  1. declericalized
  2. declericalizes
  3. declericalizing
  4. declet
  5. declets
  6. declimb
  7. declimbed
  8. declimbing
  9. declimbs
  10. declinability
  11. declinable

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