climb
climb is a 5-letter English word with 14 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
- intransitive verb. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
- intransitive verb. To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
- transitive verb. To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
- noun. The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.
- noun. the act of climbing something
"it was a difficult climb to the top"
- noun. an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
- noun. an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
"the car couldn't make it up the rise"
- verb. increase in value or to a higher point
"prices climbed steeply"
"the value of our house rose sharply last year"
- verb. improve one's social status
"This young man knows how to climb the social ladder"
- verb. go up or advance
"Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
- verb. go upward with gradual or continuous progress
"Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"
- verb. move with difficulty, by grasping
- verb. slope upward
"The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill"
Synonyms
mount, climbing, mounting, acclivity, ascent, raise, rise, upgrade, wax
Common word forms
climbs, climbed, climber, climbing, climbable
Words from these letters
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