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Climbing
- verb - an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.)
- go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
- go upward with gradual or continuous progress; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"
- improve one's social status; "This young man knows how to climb the social ladder"
- increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"
- move with difficulty, by grasping
- slope upward; "The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill"
Clingier
- unknown - being more clingy
Clinging
- verb - come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"
- hold on tightly or tenaciously; "hang on to your father's hands"; "The child clung to his mother's apron"
- to remain emotionally or intellectually attached; "He clings to the idea that she might still love him."
Clinking
- verb - like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped
- make a high sound typical of glass; "champagne glasses clinked to make a toast"
- make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells"
Clipping
- verb - an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; "he searched through piles of letters and clippings"
- attach with a clip; "clip the papers together"
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
- cutting down to the desired size or shape
- run at a moderately swift pace
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping; "nip off the flowers"
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent; "My speech was cut short"; "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"
- the act of clipping or snipping
Cliquish
- adjective - befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
Cliquism
- - The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques.
Cloaking
- verb - cover as if with clothing; "the mountain was clothed in tropical trees"
- cover with or as if with a cloak; "cloaked monks"
- hide under a false appearance; "He masked his disappointment"
Clocking
- verb - measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time; "he clocked the runners"
- the time taken to traverse a measured course; "it was a world record clocking"
Cloddish
- adjective - Clumsy, uncouth
- heavy and dull and stupid