Synonyms of the word

acclivity

• n. (geomorphology) A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in…

ascent

• n. The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
• n. The way or means by which one ascends.
• n. An eminence, hill, or high place.
• n. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising…
• n. (typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
• n. An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy.

climb

• v. (intransitive) To ascend; rise; to go up.
• v. (transitive) To mount; to move upwards on.
• v. (transitive) To scale; to get to the top of something.
• v. (transitive) To move (especially up and down something) by gripping with the hands and using the feet.
• v. (intransitive) to practise the sport of climbing.
• v. (intransitive) to jump high.
• v. To move to a higher position on the social ladder.
• v. (botany) Of plants, to grow upwards by clinging to something.
• n. An act of climbing.
• n. The act of getting to somewhere more elevated.
• n. An upwards struggle.

incline

• v. (transitive) To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.
• v. (intransitive) To slope.
• v. To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view,…
• n. A slope.

raise

• v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
• v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
• v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
• v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
• v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
• n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
• n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
• n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
• n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
• n. A cairn or pile of stones.

rise

• v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
• v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
• v. To begin; to develop.
• v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
• v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
• v. To come; to offer itself.
• v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
• n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
• n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
• n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
• n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
• n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
• n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
• n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
• n. (informal) An angry reaction.
• n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

side

• n. A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape.
• n. A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face.
• n. One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
• n. A region in a specified position with respect to something.
• n. The portion of the human torso usually covered by the arms when they are not raised; the areas on the…
• n. One surface of a sheet of paper (used instead of "page", which can mean one or both surfaces.).
• n. One possible aspect of a concept, person or thing.
• n. One set of competitors in a game.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland) A sports team.
• n. A group having a particular allegiance in a conflict or competition.
• n. (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english.
• n. (Britain, Australia, Ireland, dated) A television channel, usually as opposed to the one currently being…
• n. (US, colloquial) A dish that accompanies the main course; a side dish.
• n. A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
• n. (baseball) The batters faced in an inning by a particular pitcher.
• v. (intransitive) To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with".
• v. To lean on one side.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To suit; to pair; to match.
• v. (transitive, shipbuilding) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a siding.
• adj. Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral.
• adj. Indirect; oblique; incidental.
• adj. (Britain archaic, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Wide; large; long, pendulous, hanging low, trailing;…
• adj. (Scotland) Far; distant.
• adv. (Britain dialectal) Widely; wide; far.

slope

• n. An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.
• n. The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.
• n. (mathematics) The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if…
• n. (mathematics) The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.
• n. The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise…
• n. (vulgar, highly offensive, ethnic slur) A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.
• v. (intransitive) To tend steadily upward or downward.
• v. (transitive) To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant.
• v. (colloquial, usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously.
• v. (military) To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt,…
• adj. (obsolete) Sloping.
• adv. (obsolete) slopingly.

upgrade

• n. An upward grade or slope.
• n. An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology.
• n. An improvement.
• v. (transitive) To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more…
• v. (transitive) To replace with something better.
• v. (transitive) To improve the equipment or furnishings of or services rendered to.
• v. (intransitive) To improve in condition or status.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher…
• adv. Up a slope or grade.