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declimb

verb

Etymology

From de- + climb.

  1. derived from *gley-✻
  2. derived from *klibaną✻
  3. inherited from *klimbaną✻ — “to climb, go up by clinging”
  4. inherited from *klimban✻
  5. inherited from climban
  6. inherited from climben
  7. prefixed as declimb — “de + climb”

Definitions

  1. To climb down.

    • It has saddled us with an insoluble puzzle: How to declimb from heights that make us dizzy and that we cannot endure forever without slipping into an incalculable slide that we can [not] arrest with all existing brakes[…]

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