climb down

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   come down

   “the birds alighted”

   Synonymsalight

   Broaderdescend

Questions about climb down

What does climb down mean?

climb down means "come down".

What is another word for climb down?

Close synonyms include alight. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is climb down a common word?

climb down is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.