climb

Significado (English)

Verb

1. To ascend; rise; to go up.
2. To mount; to move upwards on.
3. To scale; to get to the top of something.
4. To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
5. To practise the sport of climbing.
6. To jump high.
7. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
8. To move to a higher position on a chart, table, society, etc.
9. Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.

Noun

1. An act of climbing.
2. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
3. An effort of moving upward.

Synonyms

ascend

go up

rise

mount

scale

clamber

scramble

ascent

creep

climbing

🧗

climb up

ride

get on

crawl

board

embark

soar

emerge

jump

upgrade

lift

mounting

raise

claw

shin

advance

come out

arise

get

clamber up

rack

hold on to

cross

get up

billow

straighten

acclivity

increase

hike

climb on

ascending

get on board

come up

uprise

cling to

wax

swarm

rise up

reach

record

register

rocket

🚀

runup

run-up

rush out

scaling

shinny

slither

slope

spike

spread

stand up

stem

step out

step up

strain

strech

support

swell

takeoff

take off

tense

tighten

tower

transgress

transgression

transude

traverse

trek

up

🆙

uplift

upsurge

upturn

wind up

side of hill

be lifted

mount up

ride a horse

scrabble

wind around

go upstream

rise above

claw one’s way up

stress

climb up the wood

swarm up

up-tick

prove

add up

alight

amount

appear

ascension

break

bull

come in

conquer

copulate

creep up

descend

dominate

elevation

embarkment

enter

escalade

escalation

etc.

exit

expand

formicate

frame

gain

get into

get off

get onto

get out

get out of a car

get up to

go back

go down

go out

grovel

heighten

ladder

🪜

leave

note down

pass

promoted

protrude

accede

prowl

pussyfoot

quit

raising

ramble

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/klaɪm/

Etimoloxía (English)

Inherited from Middle English: climben

Inherited from Old English: climban

Cognate with frisón occidental: klimme

Cognate with neerlandés: klimmen

Cognate with alemán: klimmen

Cognate with Old Norse: klembra

Cognate with islandés: klifra

In summary

From Middle English climben, from Old English climban (“to climb”), from Proto-West Germanic *klimban, from Proto-Germanic *klimbaną (“to climb, go up by clinging”), believed to be a nasalised variant of Proto-Germanic *klibaną, *klibāną (“to stick, cleave”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick”). Cognate with West Frisian klimme (“to climb”), Dutch klimmen (“to climb”), German klimmen (“to climb”), Old Norse klembra (“to squeeze”), Icelandic klifra (“to climb”). Related to clamber. See also clay, glue.