Dictionary Entry
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.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 15 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
- 2intransitive verb
To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
- 3intransitive 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.
- 4transitive verb
To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
- 5noun
The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.
- 6noun
the act of climbing something
"it was a difficult climb to the top"
Synonyms
- 7noun
an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
- 8noun
an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
"the car couldn't make it up the rise"
- 9verb
increase in value or to a higher point
"prices climbed steeply"
"the value of our house rose sharply last year"
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- 10verb
improve one's social status
"This young man knows how to climb the social ladder"
- 11verb
go up or advance
"Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
- 12verb
go upward with gradual or continuous progress
"Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"
Synonyms
- 13verb
move with difficulty, by grasping
- 14verb
slope upward
"The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill"
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