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unclimb en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + climb.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To undo the climbing of; to climb down or back from.
    • Then I began to unclimb the Rocky Mountains. 1924, Minnie Hill Wood, Afoot and Alone from Washington, D. C., to San Francisco, page 243:
    • If you need to be back down on the ground again you have to "unclimb" the tree the same way. 1984, Field & Stream, volume 89, number 6, page 81:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
unclimbing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unclimbed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unclimbed Tense=Past lexicographic
unclimbs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic