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Verb: climb up
  1. Go upward with gradual or continuous progress
    "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?";
    - climb, mount, go up
     
  2. Appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils
    "the vine climbed up the side of the house";
    - ascend
     
  3. Increase in rank or status
    "Her new novel climbed up high on the bestseller list";
    - rise, jump

Derived forms: climbs up, climbed up, climbing up

Type of: arise, change, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise