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Definition of Climb down
1. Verb. Come down. "The birds alighted"
Definition of Climb down
1. Noun. (idiomatic sometimes hyphenated) An abandonment, withdrawal from, or softening of a previously expressed opinion, policy, argument, etc. ¹
2. Verb. (&lit) To descend by climbing. ¹
3. Verb. (idiomatic sometimes followed by (term from)) To abandon, withdraw from, or soften a previously expressed opinion, argument, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Climb Down
Literary usage of Climb down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"This is indeed a climb down on the part of the chief disseminator of the ...
in the House yesterday was distinctly in the nature of a climb down. ..."
2. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"“How can you climb down?” asks Einstein rhetorically—a question that no doubt has
... Actually, as some of the following examples show, climb down is not ..."
3. Ninon de Lenclos by Bret (Antoine) (1904)
"... very exalted position — how shall I climb down ? My very dear friend, out of
the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh; I assure you that I still love ..."
4. The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"climb down into the well, — I have dropped the bucket into it." Aleksandr said: "
You have dropped it, so climb down yourself." The cow-tender said that she ..."
5. German Verbs: Primitives and Their Compounds by Benno Kirschbaum (1906)
"to climb down, to get down, to scramble down. Hi n anklet tern (* intr., sep.), to
climb up, to "clamber, to toil to the top of a mountain, etc. ..."
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