Translation
to climb, to clamber
Word origin
From French grimper ('to climb'), which traces back to a Germanic root meaning to grip. The hands are in the word: what you grimpas, you hold on to.
- Origin
- Germanic, via French
- Root
- grimper
- English cognates
- grip
Examples
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The boy climbed up the tree.
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We climbed the high mountain all day long.
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She climbed onto the roof of the house.
is climbing with the hands as well as the feet: up a tree, up a rock face, up a drainpipe. Simply going upwards is , and a lift or a price that rises does not but . Note the accusative of direction after : is up into the tree, whereas would be sitting there already.
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