Declimb
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To climb down. nonstandard, rare
"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[…]"
Example
More 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[…]"
Etymology
From de- + climb.
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