CLIMBED Synonyms: 106 Similar and Opposite Words

climbed

verb

past tense of climb

as in scrambled

to move (as up or over something) often with the help of the hands in holding or pulling visitors should use caution when climbing over the wet rocks along the shore

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as in rose

to move or extend upward smoke from the cabin climbing in the still mountain air

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as in increased

to become greater in size, extent, volume, amount, or number complaints to the cable company climbed after the changeover

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Recent Examples of climbed Chinese authorities have reported seven deaths and more than 550 missing, while Nepal’s disaster agency said the death toll had climbed to 669 with 2,426 people missing. — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026 Casey’s social team found its penetration with Gen Z has climbed 600 basis points over the past three years based on engagement. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026 During lunch, a familiar song came on and every server stopped, put down their trays, climbed onto the tables, and started dancing. — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2026 In Wednesday's earnings report, Salesforce said revenue for the quarter climbed 11% from a year earlier, topping estimates. — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026 As the business took off, monthly sales climbed from roughly $30,000 to hundreds of thousands of dollars. — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 28 Aug. 2026 Both of his charting studio efforts have climbed into the top two on the ranking. — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 In 2003, Benvenuto Cellini’s gold-and-enamel Saliera, then valued at roughly €50 million ($58 million), was stolen from Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum by a thief who climbed scaffolding and entered through a window. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 28 Aug. 2026 The 30-year recently climbed to the highest level since 2007, just before the Great Financial Crisis. — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026

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The war has scrambled that network, and cargo is now rerouted overland from Khor Fakkan and Fujairah, on the UAE’s east coast, where trucks queue as long as 12 hours against a 27-minute turnaround at Jebel Ali.

— Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2026
If data center opposition has scrambled politics and electoral stereotypes across the country over the past few months, Box Elder County has shown that to be true even in the unlikeliest of places.

— Melanie Stetson Freeman, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Sep. 2026

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Japan’s 10-year yield reached its highest level since August 1996, while Germany’s benchmark yield rose to a 2011 high.

— Leonie Kidd, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
The Colorado River also rose briefly just upstream from where Bright Angel Creek empties into the river, in response to the sudden influx of water, according to the river gauge on the geologic survey, but quickly adjusted.

— Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of rose

Verb

Other, more peripheral allies of the president have also ascended over the past year to wield more outside influence on certain issues — among them, Republican operative Roger Stone.

— Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 31 Aug. 2026
At that time, his eldest daughter, Maria Adelaide, ascended to the throne—a succession made possible by the abolition of the Salic Law, which had restricted the line of succession to males only.

— Giorgia Olivieri, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of ascended

Verb

On Monday evening, Naomi Osaka soared through round one of the 2026 US Open in New York designer Who Decides War, styled by inimitable Law Roach.

— Alexandra Hildreth, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2026
Under Greenberg’s leadership, L’Oréal USA saw growth across categories including fragrance, where prestige sales soared and new megawatt pillars from YSL Beauty Myslf to Prada Paradigme swiftly made impacts on the market.

— Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of soared

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In a House Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing Wednesday, Republican and Democratic lawmakers criticized Oracle for a contract that has now swelled to $27 billion.

— Benjamin Guggenheim, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2026
But the administration, led by Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg, has pushed ahead, recruiting bankers to help wield a loan authority that has swelled from $1 billion to $200 billion thanks to the recent Republican party-line tax bill.

— Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of swelled

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People have clambered into helicopters from roof terraces and been winched up from the mud left behind by the floodwater, videos posted by the Nepali Army show.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2026
Several members equipped with climbing harnesses clambered up a small tree on the school’s front lawn and dangled from its limbs on climbing ropes.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2026