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climb

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1. climb - Noun

2. climb - Verb

Meaning

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point.

To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

To ascend, as by means of the hands and feet, or laboriously or slowly; to mount.

The act of one who climbs; ascent by climbing.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. Muhammad Ali

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. George Bernard Shaw

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. Nelson Mandela

You may well have two legs but you still can't climb two trees at the same time. Ethiopian Proverb

Life is a ladder -- some will climb up it, others down. Bulgarian Proverb

Who cannot yet walk, cannot climb a ladder. Ethiopian Proverb

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