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misclimb en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + climb.

Meanings

1. To make a mistake while climbing; to climb too far or in the wrong direction.
   • Hey, dilly, dilly, They thought you were a Lily 'Cause they misclimbed your botanical tree. But don't resort to Valiums You botanists, for Alliums Are in the Amaryllis family. 1981, Marilyn Singer, The Fanatic's Ecstatic Aromatic Guide to Onions, Garlic, Shallots, and Leeks, page 180:
   • This certainty stems from my acquaitance and freindship with him, of course, like a tree sprung from the earth up there in my woodlot; and even before this new journey of his begins, I can surely misclimb — out on a limb myself — and wonder: What's that crazy fellow going to do next? 2013, Wilhelm Raabe, Wilhelm Raabe: ‘The Birdsong Papers’, page 66:
   • it, water-clear, claps itself over the freedom that climbed with me, that misclimbed too high, on which one of the heavens gorged itself, that I let vault above the worddrenched image orbit, blood orbit. 2014, Paul Celan, Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry, page 27:
   • Or show you restless, miswandering, misclimbing ones new and easier footpaths? 1909, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, →ISBN:

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