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climb

(kl/aI/m )

go upward with gradual or continuous progress(verb.motion)

Example:
Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?.

Synonym:
climb up, go up, mount

source: wordnet30
move with difficulty, by grasping(verb.motion)

source: wordnet30
go up or advance(verb.change)

Example:
Sales were climbing after prices were lowered.

Synonym:
mount, rise, wax
Antonym:
wane

source: wordnet30
slope upward(verb.motion)

Example:
The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill.

source: wordnet30
improve one's social status(verb.change)

Example:
This young man knows how to climb the social ladder.

source: wordnet30
increase in value or to a higher point(verb.change)

Example:
Prices climbed steeply.

Synonym:
go up, rise

source: wordnet30
To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.(verb)

source: webster1913
To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.(verb)

source: webster1913

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