Declimb

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 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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