ALL meanings of climb down
climb down
C c - phrasal verb climb down If you climb down in an argument or dispute, you admit that you are wrong, or change your intentions or demands. 3
- countable noun climb down A climb-down in an argument or dispute is the act of admitting that you are wrong or of changing your intentions or demands. 3
- verb climb down to descend 3
- verb climb down to retreat (from an opinion, position, etc) 3
- noun climb down a retreat from an opinion, etc 3
- noun climb down an instance of someone retreating from a position or opinion 3
- transitivephrasal verb climb down descend by grasping 1
- intransitivephrasal verb climb down descend sth by grasping 1
- intransitivephrasal verb climb down accept defeat 1
- noun climb down a climbing; an ascent by climbing: It was a long climb to the top of the hill. 1
- noun climb down a place to be climbed: That peak is quite a climb. 1
- verb without object climb down to go up or ascend, especially by using the hands and feet or feet only: to climb up a ladder. 1
- verb without object climb down to rise slowly by or as if by continued effort: The car laboriously climbed to the top of the mountain. 1
- verb without object climb down to ascend or rise: The plane climbed rapidly and we were soon at 35,000 feet. Temperatures climbed into the 80s yesterday. 1
- verb without object climb down to slope upward: The road climbs steeply up to the house. 1
- verb without object climb down to ascend by twining or by means of tendrils, adhesive tissues, etc., as a plant: The ivy climbed to the roof. 1
- verb without object climb down 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. 1
- verb without object climb down to ascend in prominence, fortune, etc.: From lowly beginnings he climbed to the highest office in the land. 1
- verb with object climb down 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. 1
- verb with object climb down to go to the top of and over: The prisoners climbed the wall and escaped. 1
- noun climb down (Idiomatic) (sometimes hyphenated) An abandonment, withdrawal from, or softening of a previously expressed opinion, policy, argument, etc. 0
- verb climb down Used other than as an idiom. To descend by climbing. 0
- verb climb down (Idiomatic) (sometimes followed by from) To abandon, withdraw from, or soften a previously expressed opinion, argument, etc. 0