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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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.

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First off, I needed to devise a way for someone who couldn't use their legs and didn't have arms like Arnold Schwarzenegger's to climb up a wall.

Helping heroes: last year, climber Andy Kirkpatrick offered to help Phil Packer climb Yosemite's El Capitan as part of a quest to raise 1 million [pounds sterling] for Help For Heroes. However, the challenges they faced stretched far beyond the paucity of specialist climbing equipment available for people with physical disabilities

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