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To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

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  1. v. i. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
  2. v. i. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.
  3. v. i. To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.
  4. v. t. To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.
  5. n. The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.
  6. n. an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
  7. n. an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
  8. n. the act of climbing something
  9. v. go upward with gradual or continuous progress
  10. v. move with effort, by grasping
  11. v. go up or advance
  12. v. slope upward