CLIMBED Synonyms: 106 Similar and Opposite Words

climbed

verb

past tense of climb

as in scrambled

to move (as up or over something) often with the help of the hands in holding or pulling visitors should use caution when climbing over the wet rocks along the shore

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as in rose

to move or extend upward smoke from the cabin climbing in the still mountain air

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as in increased

to become greater in size, extent, volume, amount, or number complaints to the cable company climbed after the changeover

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Recent Examples of climbed Back on the job the morning after the alert was lifted, Isidro threw a rope over an avocado tree about 20 feet (6 meters) high and climbed up. — ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026 The average freight rate climbed 9 percent percent year over year to $1,475 per 20-foot container (TEU). — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 14 Aug. 2026 The summit itself turned out to be a failure, but Washington and Moscow later climbed over its wreckage to reach new agreements. — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2026 The track climbed to Number 17 on the Hot 100 more than four decades after its initial release. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026 Shares climbed 6% after an analyst at JPMorgan upgradedSandisk to overweight from neutral. — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2026 So far this year, shares of the Canadian company climbed 22% in Toronto. — Norah Rami, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026 As temperatures climbed, heat and drought overwhelmed the benefits of higher carbon dioxide levels. — Regan E. Dunn, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2026 Meanwhile, that state’s unemployment rate has climbed steadily since the beginning of the year. — Bryan Mena, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026

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The sitting governor campaigned with Crowley in the final sprint to the primary as the party scrambled to unite around an alternative to Hong.

— Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
Doctors scrambled to figure out what was going on, running more tests.

— Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of scrambled

Verb

The price swung between $72 and $102 last month as hopes rose and fell that the United States and Iran could reach an agreement that would allow oil tankers to freely exit the Middle East again to deliver crude worldwide.

— Frank Andrews, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, the share of California public safety employees with at least 15 years of tenure dramatically rose from about 10% in 1996 to 47% in 2024.

— Mariana Trujillo, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of rose

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Diagnoses of autism, a neurodevelopmental condition that affects how people communicate and behave, have increased roughly fivefold over the past couple of decades.

— Amanda Seitz, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
Confusion reigns Wright asserted that the seven-day average of oil flowing out of the Strait of Hormuz had increased to 9 million barrels per day.

— David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of increased

Verb

In Iran, the rate of inflation for food has soared by nearly 130% over the past 12 months, and people are having to buy food and medicine in installments, according to reports from Iranian media.

— Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
Their odds of playing into October have soared from roughly 7 percent to better than 60 percent.

— Dennis Lin, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of soared

Verb

The man — holding one bladed weapon in each hand — responded by walking down 41st Avenue away from a growing mass of officers, which quickly swelled from just a couple to at least 10.

— Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
As her pregnancy progressed, Kabita’s belly swelled while the rest of her remained gaunt.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of swelled

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Several members equipped with climbing harnesses clambered up a small tree on the school’s front lawn and dangled from its limbs on climbing ropes.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026
Cars honked their horns and cyclists pulled over to tune in as flags fluttered in the wind, fans clambered to see the screen, and people hugged and shouted.

— Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 17 June 2026

Definition of clambered

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Tromso, the northernmost football club in the world to win a major national trophy, having lifted the Norwegian Cup in 1986 and 1996, are tricky opponents.

— Andy Naylor, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
WorldView-3 lifted off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and has been orbiting Earth ever since.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026