Movement
Synonyms for climb
The synonym for climb recorded in this bank is ascend, in the sense "go upward with gradual or continuous progress". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for climb
- ascendverb, in the sense "go upward with gradual or continuous progress"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for climb.
go upward with gradual or continuous progress
Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?
The true synonym
ascend
Same sentence, swapped: Did you ever ascend up the hill behind your house?
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for climb in the sentence quoted.
- wax
- rocket
- steam
Where climb turns up in the game
climb is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where climb is the trap
- mountnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is setting, in the sense "a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place", and climb is one of the three tiles that lose.
- risenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is hike, in the sense "an increase in cost", and climb is on the board beside it.
- mountverb, Tier 5, Summit. The answer there is bestride, in the sense "get up on the back of", and climb is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play climb
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so climb reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from movement at Ridgeline outward to the whole bank.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. climb carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.