climb up

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Verb	1.	climb up - go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?" climb, go up, mount scale - climb up by means of a ladder escalade - climb up and over; "They had to escalade canyons to reach their destination" ramp - creep up -- used especially of plants; "The roses ramped over the wall" mountaineer - climb mountains for pleasure as a sport go up, rise, move up, lift, arise, come up, uprise - move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" ride - climb up on the body; "Shorts that ride up"; "This skirt keeps riding up my legs"
	2.	climb up - appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; "the vine climbed up the side of the house" ascend
	3.	climb up - rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list" jump, rise change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"

Translations

w>climb up

vi = climb VI

vi +prep obj ladder etc → hinaufsteigen; tree, wall → hochklettern

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As GDP growth begins to climb up, we will see that trend go up to normal.

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Remains of the banks at given instrument of the regulator grew by 71.7 bn RUR, which considering the insignificant reduction of assets at correspondent accounts allowed sum liquidity to climb up again -by 66.6 bn RUR to 1,150 bn RUR.

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Before he began he said that he expected his climb up the silvery, glass-covered Burj to take six or seven hours, and as night fell, a row of powerful spotlights shone on the side of the tower to light the way.