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declimb

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To climb down.

nonstandard, rare

Examples

“It has saddled us with an insoluble puzzle: How to declimb from heights that make⟳ us dizzy and that we cannot endure forever without slipping into an incalculable slide⟳ that we can [not] arrest with all existing brakes[…]”
“I had been told that, if the principal really didn't like⟳ you, he would assign you five classrooms, one for each period and each on different floors, so that you might find⟳ yourself climbing and declimbing four flights of stairs, plus descending to the half basement, whose windows were half-covered with snow⟳ during the winter and tall grass the rest⟳ of the time.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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