abseil
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
(mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body
Types & categories
- descent hypernym
Related & opposite
- mountain climbing domain topic
Sense 2 verb
lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside
The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous
Types & categories
- come down hypernym
Related & opposite
- sport domain topic
- mountaineer entails
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | mountain climbing |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | descent |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | sport |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | mountaineer |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | come down |