climb

Noun

• the act of climbing something
  • it was a difficult climb to the top
    

• an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)

• an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
  • the car couldn't make it up the rise
    

Verb

• increase in value or to a higher point
  • prices climbed steeply
    
  • the value of our house rose sharply last year
    

• improve one's social status
  • This young man knows how to climb the social ladder
    

• slope upward
  • The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill
    

• go up or advance
  • Sales were climbing after prices were lowered
    

• move with difficulty, by grasping

• go upward with gradual or continuous progress
  • Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  mount , climbing , mounting , ascent , acclivity , rise , raise , upgrade , go up , wax , climb up
• Antonyms: 
  descent , declivity , fall , decline , declination , declension , downslope , wane