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present tense third-person singular of climb
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1
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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2
to move or extend upward
- smoke from the cabin climbing in the still mountain air
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3
to become greater in size, extent, volume, amount, or number
- complaints to the cable company climbed after the changeover
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- accelerates,
- accumulates,
- appreciates,
- balloons,
- booms,
- builds up,
- burgeons
- (also bourgeons),
- enlarges,
- escalates,
- expands,
- gains,
- increases,
- mounts,
- multiplies,
- mushrooms,
- proliferates,
- rises,
- rolls up,
- snowballs,
- spreads,
- swells,
- waxes
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climbs
nounplural of climb
Synonyms & Antonyms of climbs (Entry 2 of 2)
the act or an instance of rising or climbing up
- a long hard climb up the mountain
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