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declimbing

declimbing is the present participle and gerund 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 declimbing

What is declimbing the present participle and gerund of?
Declimbing is the present participle and gerund of declimb.

Words near declimbing in the dictionary

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

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