Basic Details
Word: Climbed
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: The past tense of climb: went up something such as a hill, tree or ladder, often using hands and feet; also used for prices or numbers that rose.
Synonyms: scaled, ascended, mounted, rose
Antonyms: descended, fell, dropped
How to Spell Climbed
Syllables: climbed
Tricky part: The b is silent, so many students leave it out and write climed. It stays in every form of the word: climb, climber, climbing, climbed.
Watch out for: climed, clymbed, climbd
Memory tip: There is a limb inside cl-imb-ed, and you use every limb when you climb.
Usage Examples
Example 1: Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary climbed Mount Everest in 1953.
Example 2: We climbed the steps of the old fort at Golconda and looked out over Hyderabad.
Example 3: My little brother climbed onto the bed and refused to come down.
Fun Fact
In Old English the word was climban and its b was probably sounded; lamb, comb and thumb lost the spoken b in the same way over the centuries.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Only one word in the list is spelt correctly. Choose the meaning of that word.
1. climbed 2. determind 3. trespased 4. persauded
a) made someone agree by giving good reasons
b) went up something, often using hands and feet
c) entered someone's land without permission
d) firmly decided to do something
Show answer
b) went up something, often using hands and feet. Climbed is the only correct spelling; the others should be trespassed, determined and persuaded.
Word Connection
Choose the word closest in meaning to climbed as used in the sentence:
The children climbed the old banyan tree to pick its small red figs.
a) descended
b) circled
c) chopped
d) scaled
Show answer
d) scaled. To scale a tree or a wall is to climb it; descended means came down.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the word in the sentence and choose it:
The mountain goats dlembic up the rocky slope in search of fresh grass.
a) climbed
b) clubbed
c) climaxed
d) combed
Show answer
a) climbed. Combed has no l or i and clubbed has a u; only climbed fits these letters and the goats on the slope.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct letters to form a word:
cl_m_ed
a) i, b
b) y, b
c) i, e
d) e, b
Show answer
a) i, b. The word keeps the silent b of climb, and the vowel is a plain i.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which of these could a person have climbed?
a) a puddle
b) a staircase
c) a song
d) a breeze
Show answer
b) a staircase
2. In 'Sales climbed after the advertisement', climbed means ____.
a) increased
b) argued
c) stopped
d) hid
Show answer
a) increased
