escalade
[verb]
Synonyms: ascend, climb, escalate, mount, scale, upclimb, upgo

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Contrasted words: clamber (down), climb (down), go (down)

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escalade noun. [ɛskǝ'leɪd] L16.
[French, or Spanish escalada, -ado, = Italian scalata, from medieval Latin scalare SCALE verb²: see -ADE.]
The action or an act of scaling the walls of a fortified place by means of ladders.
Also
■ escalado [ɛskǝ'lɑ:dǝʊ] noun (arch.), pl. -oes, L16.

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escalade verb trans. [ɛskǝ'leɪd] E19.
[from the noun.]
Climb and get over (a wall) by means of ladders.

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