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Verb: climb up
  1. Go upward with gradual or continuous progress
    "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?";
    - climb, mount, go up, ascend
     
  2. Increase in rank or status
    "He climbed up the corporate ladder quickly";
    - rise, jump

Derived forms: climbing up, climbed up, climbs up

See also: mount

Type of: arise, change, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise [archaic, literary]