Synonyms of the word

climb

• v. (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
• v. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
• v. (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
• v. (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
• v. (intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing.
• v. (intransitive) to jump high.
• v. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
• v. (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
• n. An act of climbing.
• n. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
• n. An upwards struggle.

acclivity

• n. (geomorphology) A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in…

advance

• v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
• v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
• v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
• v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
• v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
• v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
• v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
• v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
• v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
• n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
• n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
• n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
• n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
• adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
• adj. Preceding.
• adj. Forward.

arise

• v. To come up from a lower to a higher position.
• v. To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
• v. To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin…

ascending

• v. present participle of ascend.
• n. An ascent.

ascension

• n. The act of ascending; an ascent.
• n. That which rises, as from distillation.

ascent

• n. The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
• n. The way or means by which one ascends.
• n. An eminence, hill, or high place.
• n. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising…
• n. (typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
• n. An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy.

climbing

• n. (uncountable) The sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds,…
• n. (countable) Climb; ascent.
• v. present participle of climb.
• adj. (botany, of a plant) That climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.

grow

• v. (ergative) To become bigger.
• v. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
• v. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
• v. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

incline

• v. (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
• v. (intransitive) To slope.
• v. To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view,…
• n. A slope.

increase

• v. (intransitive) (of a quantity) To become larger.
• v. (transitive) To make (a quantity) larger.
• v. To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
• v. (astronomy, intransitive) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax.
• n. An amount by which a quantity is increased.
• n. For a quantity, the act or process of becoming larger.
• n. (knitting) The creation of one or more new stitches; see Increase (knitting).

lift

• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
• n. (Britain dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
• v. (transitive, slang) To steal. (for this sense Cleasby suggests perhaps a relation to the root of Gothic…
• v. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.).
• v. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
• v. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
• v. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
• v. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
• v. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
• v. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
• v. (computing, programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
• n. An act of lifting or raising.
• n. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between…
• n. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
• n. (measurement) the difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated…
• n. (historical slang) A thief.
• n. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
• n. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
• n. an improvement in mood.
• n. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.
• n. A rise; a degree of elevation.
• n. A lift gate.
• n. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or…
• n. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
• n. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
• n. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

mount

• n. A mountain.
• n. (palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences…
• n. (obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
• n. (obsolete) A bank; a fund.
• n. An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse.
• n. A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
• n. (obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
• v. (heading, physical) To move upwards.
• v. (transitive) To attach (an object) to a support.
• v. (intransitive, sometimes with up) To increase in quantity or intensity.
• v. (obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to).
• v. (transitive) To get on top of (an animal) to mate.
• v. (transitive) To begin (a military assault, etc.); to launch.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To deploy (cannon) for use in or around it.
• v. (transitive) To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).

mounting

• adj. that continues to mount; steadily accumulating.
• v. present participle of mount.
• n. Something mounted; an attachment.
• n. The act of one who mounts.

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

pitch

• n. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
• n. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
• n. (geology) Pitchstone.
• v. To cover or smear with pitch.
• v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
• n. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
• n. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
• n. (sports) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is…
• n. An effort to sell or promote something.
• n. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread,…
• n. The angle at which an object sits.
• n. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
• n. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
• n. The place where a busker performs.
• n. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
• n. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
• n. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
• n. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
• n. (now Britain, regional) A person or animal's height.
• n. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
• n. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
• n. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate…
• n. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
• v. (transitive) To throw.
• v. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
• v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
• v. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
• v. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
• v. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
• v. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
• v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes…
• v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
• v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
• v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
• v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
• v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
• v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
• v. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
• n. (music) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
• n. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune…
• v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
• v. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.

progress

• n. Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
• n. Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
• n. An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
• n. (now rare) A journey forward; travel.
• n. Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
• v. (intransitive) to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
• v. (intransitive) to improve; to become better or more complete.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) forward; to advance, to expedite.

raise

• v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
• v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
• v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
• v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
• v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
• n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
• n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
• n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
• n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
• n. A cairn or pile of stones.

rise

• v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
• v. To begin; to develop.
• v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
• v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
• v. To come; to offer itself.
• v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
• n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
• n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
• n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
• n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
• n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
• n. (informal) An angry reaction.
• n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

rising

• v. present participle of rise.
• n. Rebellion.
• n. The act of something that rises.
• n. (US, dated) A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.
• adj. Going up.
• prep. (US, slang, dated) More than; exceeding; upwards of.

side

• n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
• n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
• n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
• n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
• n. The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the…
• n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.).
• n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
• n. One set of competitors in a game.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
• n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
• n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being…
• n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
• n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
• n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
• v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
• v. To lean on one side.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
• v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
• adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
• adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
• adj. (Britain archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing;…
• adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
• adv. (Britain dialectal) Widely; wide; far.

slope

• n. An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
• n. The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
• n. (mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if…
• n. (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
• n. The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise…
• n. (vulgar, highly offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
• v. (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
• v. (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
• v. (colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
• v. (military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt,…
• adj. (obsolete) Sloping.
• adv. (obsolete) slopingly.

upgrade

• n. An upward grade or slope.
• n. An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology.
• n. An improvement.
• v. (transitive) To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more…
• v. (transitive) To replace with something better.
• v. (transitive) To improve the equipment or furnishings of or services rendered to.
• v. (intransitive) To improve in condition or status.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher…
• adv. Up a slope or grade.

uprise

• v. (archaic) To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
• v. (archaic) To have an upward direction or inclination.
• v. To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising.
• n. The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.

wax

• n. Beeswax.
• n. Earwax.
• n. Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
• n. Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
• n. (uncountable) The phonograph record format for music.
• n. (US, dialect) A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
• n. (US, slang) A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil.
• adj. Made of wax.
• v. (transitive) To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make…
• v. (transitive) To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of…
• v. (transitive, informal) To defeat utterly.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill, especially to murder a person.
• v. (transitive, archaic, usually of a musical or oral performance) To record.
• v. (intransitive, with adjective) To increasingly assume the specified characteristic, become.
• v. (intransitive, literary) To grow.
• v. (intransitive, of the moon) To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
• n. (rare) The process of growing.
• n. (dated, colloquial) An outburst of anger.