climb
- Verb. (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
- Verb. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
- Verb. (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
- Verb. (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
- Verb. (intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing.
- Verb. (intransitive) to jump high.
- Verb. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
- Verb. (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
- Noun. An act of climbing.
- Noun. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
- Noun. An upwards struggle.
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