misclimb

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ climb

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪm

Verb

misclimb (third-person singular simple present misclimbs, present participle misclimbing, simple past and past participle misclimbed)

1. To make a mistake while climbing; to climb too far or in the wrong direction.
   • 1909, Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, →ISBN:

     Or show you restless, miswandering, misclimbing ones new and easier footpaths?

   • 1981, Marilyn Singer, The Fanatic's Ecstatic Aromatic Guide to Onions, Garlic, Shallots, and Leeks, page 180:

     Hey, dilly, dilly, They thought you were a Lily 'Cause they misclimbed your botanical tree. But don't resort to Valiums You botanists, for Alliums Are in the Amaryllis family.

   • 2013, Wilhelm Raabe, Wilhelm Raabe: ‘The Birdsong Papers’, page 66:

     This certainty stems from my acquaitance and freindship with him, of course, like a tree sprung from the earth up there in my woodlot; and even before this new journey of his begins, I can surely misclimb — out on a limb myself — and wonder: What's that crazy fellow going to do next?

   • 2014, Paul Celan, Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry, page 27:

     it, water-clear, claps itself over the freedom that climbed with me, that misclimbed too high, on which one of the heavens gorged itself, that I let vault above the worddrenched image orbit, blood orbit.