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What does "dignity" mean?
Origin of climb
before 1000; Middle English climben,Old English climban; cognate with Dutch, German klimmen; akin to clamber
synonym study for climb
8. Climb, ascend, mount, scale imply a moving upward. To climb is to make one's way upward, often with effort: to climb a mountain. Ascend, in its literal meaning (âto go upâ), is general, but it now usually suggests a gradual or stately movement, with or without effort, often to a considerable degree of altitude: to ascend the heights; to ascend the Himalayas. Mount may be interchangeable with ascend, but also suggests climbing on top of or astride of: to mount a platform, a horse. Scale, a more literary word, implies difficult or hazardous climbing up or over something: to scale a summit.
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climb , climeWords nearby climb
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How to use climb in a sentence
British Dictionary definitions for climb
climb
/ (klaÉȘm) /
verb (mainly intr)
noun
the act or an instance of climbing
a place or thing to be climbed, esp a route in mountaineering
Other words from climb
Related adjective: scansorialDerived forms of climb
climbable, adjectiveWord Origin for climb
Old English climban; related to Old Norse klembra to squeeze, Old High German climban to clamber
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