<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) To go up or ascend, especially by using the hands and feet or feet only: She climbed up the ladder.</li><li>To rise slowly by or as if by continued effort: The car climbed laboriously to the top of the mountain.</li><li>To ascend or rise: The plane climbed rapidly and we were soon at 35,000 feet.</li><li>To slope upward: The road climbs steeply up to the house.</li><li>(of a plant) To ascend by twining or by means of tendrils, adhesive tissues, etc.: The ivy climbed to the roof.</li><li>To proceed or move by using the hands and feet, especially on an elevated place; crawl: To climb along a branch; to climb around on the roof.</li><li>To ascend in prominence, fortune, etc.: From lowly beginnings he climbed to the highest office in the land.</li><li>(used with object) To ascend, go up, or get to the top of, especially by the use of the hands and feet or feet alone or by continuous or strenuous effort: To climb a rope; to climb the stairs; to climb a mountain.</li><li>To go to the top of and over: The prisoners climbed the wall and escaped.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A climbing; an ascent by climbing: It was a long climb to the top of the hill.</li><li>A place to be climbed: That peak is quite a climb.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>To descend, especially by using both hands and feet: She climbed down from the treehouse and went to wash up for supper.</li><li>Chiefly British: To retreat from a policy, opinion, position in a debate, etc.: He climbed down from that argument once he saw that it was based on incorrect data.</li><li>Slang: To become tense or frantic: After a week stuck inside the house, the kids were climbing the walls.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>