Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to climb
Participle: climbed
Gerund: climbing
Indicative
Present
| I | climb |
| you | climb |
| he;she;it | climbs |
| we | climb |
| you | climb |
| they | climb |
Perfect
| I | have climbed; clomb |
| you | have climbed; clomb |
| he;she;it | has climbed; clomb |
| we | have climbed; clomb |
| you | have climbed; clomb |
| they | have climbed; clomb |
Past
| I | climbed |
| you | climbed |
| he;she;it | climbed |
| we | climbed |
| you | climbed |
| they | climbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had climbed; clomb |
| you | had climbed; clomb |
| he;she;it | had climbed; clomb |
| we | had climbed; clomb |
| you | had climbed; clomb |
| they | had climbed; clomb |
Future
| I | will climb |
| you | will climb |
| he;she;it | will climb |
| we | will climb |
| you | will climb |
| they | will climb |
Future Perfect
| I | will have climbed; clomb |
| you | will have climbed; clomb |
| he;she;it | will have climbed; clomb |
| we | will have climbed; clomb |
| you | will have climbed; clomb |
| they | will have climbed; clomb |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | climb |
| you | climb |
| he;she;it | climb |
| we | climb |
| you | climb |
| they | climb |
Perfect
| I | have climbed; clomb |
| you | have climbed; clomb |
| he;she;it | have climbed; clomb |
| we | have climbed; clomb |
| you | have climbed; clomb |
| they | have climbed; clomb |
Imperfect
| I | climbed |
| you | climbed |
| he;she;it | climbed |
| we | climbed |
| you | climbed |
| they | climbed |
Pluperfect
| I | had climbed; clomb |
| you | had climbed; clomb |
| he;she;it | had climbed; clomb |
| we | had climbed; clomb |
| you | had climbed; clomb |
| they | had climbed; clomb |
Conditional
Present
| I | would climb |
| you | would climb |
| he;she;it | would climb |
| we | would climb |
| you | would climb |
| they | would climb |
Perfect
| I | would have climbed; clomb |
| you | would have climbed; clomb |
| he;she;it | would have climbed; clomb |
| we | would have climbed; clomb |
| you | would have climbed; clomb |
| they | would have climbed; clomb |
Imperative
| you | climb |
| we | Let's climb |
| you | climb |
Verbs conjugated like 'climb'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'climb'
chimb,
limb,
belimb,
blimp,
chib,
chime,
chimp,
claim,
claime,
clam,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English climben, clymben, from Old English climban (“to climb”), from Proto-West Germanic *klimban, from Proto-Germanic *klimbaną (“to climb, go up by clinging”), believed to be a nasalised variant of Proto-Germanic *klibaną, *klibāną (“to stick, cleave”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to stick”). Cognate with West Frisian klimme (“to climb”), Dutch klimmen (“to climb”), German klimmen (“to climb”), Old Norse klembra (“to squeeze”), Icelandic klifra (“to climb”). Related to clamber. See also clay, glue. See: Old English '
climban', Proto-Germanic '
*klimbaną', Dutch '
klimmen', German, old spelling '
klimmen', Icelandic '
klifra'.
Verbs referencing "climb"
Scots
clim, Ido klimar, Luxembourgish
klammen, Sranan
kren.
Sample Sentences
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I had previously been into another chamber, where a number of blind boys were swinging, and climbing, and engaged in various sports. They all clamoured, as we entered, to the assistant-master, who accompanied us, ‘Look at me, Mr. Hart! Please, Mr. Hart, look at me ! ’ evincing, I thought, even [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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After a while, they came to a thick patch of woodland, through which murmured a clear brook. As the child complained of hunger and thirst, she climbed over the fence with him; and, sitting down behind a large rock which concealed them from the road, she gave him a breakfast out of her little package. The boy wondered and grieved that she could not [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ Tom, let the door-knob alone,—there's a man ! Mary ! Mary ! don't pull the cat's tail,—poor pussy ! Jim, you mustn't climb on that table,—no, no ! — You don't know, my dear, what a surprise it is to us all, to see you here tonight ! ” said she, at last, when she found a space to say something to her husband.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] so that there is only one feat more difficult in the performance than getting in, and that is, getting out again. There is only one outside passenger, and he sits upon the box. As I am that one, I climb up; and while they are strapping the luggage on the roof, and heaping it into a kind of tray behind, have a good opportunity of looking at the driver.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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We took up at a rural bar-room, after we had gone a few miles, an intoxicated gentleman who climbed upon the roof among the luggage, and subsequently slipping off without hurting himself, was seen in the distant perspective reeling back to the grog-shop where we had found him. We also parted with [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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My Boston friend climbed up to bed, somewhere in the roof, where another guest was already snoring hugely. But being bitten beyond his power of endurance, he turned out again, and fled for shelter to the coach, which was [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The bank is very steep, and was slippery with rain, and half-melted ice. I hardly know how I got down, but I was soon at the bottom, and climbing, with two English officers who were crossing and had joined me, over some broken rocks, deafened by the noise, half-blinded by the spray, and wet to the skin. We were at the foot of the American [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] of this most picturesque city, there are associations clustering about it which would make a desert rich in interest. The dangerous precipice along whose rocky front, Wolfe and his brave companions climbed to glory; the Plains of Abraham, where he received his mortal wound; the fortress so chivalrously defended by Montcalm; and his soldier 's grave, dug for him while yet alive, by the bursting of a [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] attire, let there be nothing but his love to set her forth or deck her out, and you shall put it to the proof indeed. So change his station in the world, that he shall see in those young things who climb about his knee: not records of his wealth and name: but little wrestlers with him for his daily bread; so many poachers on his scanty meal; so many units to divide his every sum of comfort, and [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ Thar's some tickets in that ar old cracked jug on the top shelf, ” said Dinah. “ You, Jake, climb up and get it down. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)