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declimbed

declimbed is the simple past and past participle of declimb.

Meaning of declimb

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

Questions about declimbed

What is declimbed the simple past and past participle of?
Declimbed is the simple past and past participle of declimb.

Words near declimbed in the dictionary

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

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