CLIMBED

Definition: CLIMBED

CLIMBED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Climb

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CLIMBED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Crosswords: CLIMBED

There's a tradition in tournament play not to talk about the next step until you've climbed the one in front of you. I'm sure going to the state finals is beyond your wildest dreams, so let's just keep it there for awhile (Hoosiers; writing credit: Angelo Pizzo)

They locked me up for being out with you, so I jumped out of the window, climbed over a fence, crossed the deepest river in England and here I am (Jude; writing credit: Hossein Amini; Thomas Hardy)

You climbed Everest in your shorts (Law & Order; writing credit: Peter Yeldham)

Man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean (Goldfinger; writing credit: Richard Maibaum)

And as the flames climbed high into the night (American Pie; performing artist: Don McLean)

She climbed right through the mirror (THE WANDERER; performing artist: Donna Summer)

Climbed out and collapsed on the patio (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem)

Together we climbed hills and trees, learned of love and A B Cs, skinned our hearts and skinned our knees (Seasons in the Sun; performing artist: Kingston Trio)

We climbed aboard their starship, we headed for the skies (Come Sail Away; performing artist: STYX)

Success is a ladder that can not be climbed with your hands in your pockets. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Adventure Beyond the Clouds: How We Climbed China's Highest Mountain--And Survived! (reference)

• As She Climbed Across the Table (Vintage Contemporaries) (reference)

• Boldest Dream: The Story of 12 Who Climbed Mount Everest (reference)

• The Cat That Climbed the Christmas Tree (reference)

• The Kid Who Climbed Everest: The Incredible Story of a 23-Year Old's Summit of Mt. Everest (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Cordgrass plant nearly covered at high tide. Note the periwinkle snail, Littorina irrorata, that has climbed high on the grass blade and avoided being covered by the tide. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

The great otter climbed out on a pinnacle of rock just showing above the kelp. Credit: Library of Congress.

Off to a new world's record, the Navy's Viking No. 11 roars up from its launching stand at White Sands Proving Ground, N.M., at 4,300 miles an hour. The Viking, built by Martin in Baltimore, Md., climbed to 158 miles--a new record for single stage rockets. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She had climbed her way, since then, to a higher point

Sometimes he climbed up in this manner to the roof of the galleys

He climbed to the crest of the sandhill and gazed about him.

They climbed back on the load, and they avoided the long stiff figure covered and tucked in a comforter, even the head covered and tucked

They climbed high trees, as nimbly as a squirrel, for they had strong extended claws before and behind, terminating in sharp points, and hooked

Occasionally I climbed and shook the trees

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

GDP climbed by an average of 2.9 percent annually between 1993 and 1999. The competitiveness of Swedish industry has greatly improved, due to among other things the waking of the krona that occurred when the link with ECU was removed in November 1992. Capital spending has also risen rapidly. (references)

Economic History

Oman

By mid-2000, production had climbed to more than 900,000 b/d where they remain. (references)

Hong Kong

Unemployment climbed to 6.8 percent in early 2000, according to official statistics. (references)

Taiwan

Debt service climbed steadily from 6.5% of total central expenditures in FY1991 to 15% in FY1999 and 17.9% in FY2000. (references)

Political Economy

GERMANY

However, unemployment has climbed steadily in 2001, due primarily to slower economic growth, and unemployment is again at politically sensitive levels. (references)

THAILAND

By June 2001, total public sector debt, including the non-guaranteed debt of non-financial state- owned enterprises, had climbed to $62.6 billion, or 55.87 percent of Thailand's GDP, versus $40 billion, or 40 percent of GDP, at the end of 1997. (references)

COLOMBIA

The foreign debt of the non-financial public sector (including the central government) climbed from representing 14.2 percent of GDP in 1995 to 24 percent of GDP in 2000. The overall consolidated debt of the non-financial public sector (foreign and domestic) went from representing 24.9 percent of GDP in 1995 to 46.2 percent of GDP in 2000. The central government's indebtedness accounted for 80 percent of such an increase in the total debt. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Ending with "CLIMBED": re-climbed.

Chinese 

上升 (Ascendant, Ascendent, Ascent, Climb, Climbing, Raise, Raised, Raising, rise, risen, rising, uphill, uplifted). (various references)

German

geklettert (clambered, scrambled, scrambling), erkletterte, bestieg. (various references)

Korean 

올라가는 (Ascended). (various references)

Manx

drappit. (various references)

Pig Latin

imbedclay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "CLIMBED": outclimbed, upclimbed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CLIMBED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alimbaev, Callimba, climbe, climbes, climbeth, climet, clombe, clymbande, columbids. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: limbed.

-2 letters: bedim, bield, cebid, climb, clime, imbed, limed, medic, melic.

-3 letters: bice, bide, bile, bled, cedi, ceil, deil, deli, dice, diel, dime, emic, iced, idem, idle, lice, lied, limb, lime, meld, mice, mild, mile.

-4 letters: bed, bel, bid, cel, deb, del, dib, die, dim, eld, elm, ice, led, lei, lib, lid, lie, med.

+2 letters: medicable, upclimbed.

+3 letters: biomedical, imbalanced, outclimbed.

+4 letters: blackmailed, immedicable, immedicably, medicinable, misbalanced, umbilicated.

+5 letters: descrambling.