unclimb

English

Etymology

un- +‎ climb

Verb

unclimb (third-person singular simple present unclimbs, present participle unclimbing, simple past and past participle unclimbed)

  1. (transitive) To undo the climbing of; to climb down or back from.
    • 1924, Minnie Hill Wood, Afoot and Alone from Washington, D. C., to San Francisco, page 243:
      Then I began to unclimb the Rocky Mountains.
    • 1984, Field & Stream, volume 89, number 6, page 81:
      If you need to be back down on the ground again you have to "unclimb" the tree the same way.
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