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to escalade

9.9

To climb up and over a wall using ladders during an attack

verb
/ˌɛskəˈleɪd/

Archaic

: escalar

The troops attempted to escalade the fortress walls at dawn.

Examples

The soldiers will escalade the fortress at dawn.
They needed ropes and skill to escalade the steep ravine.
Adventurers sometimes escalade sheer cliffs to reach hidden plateaus.
They escaladed the wall with great skill.
During the military exercise, the soldiers practiced how to escalade the walls of a mock fortress.
The climbers decided to escalade the rocky slope to reach the campsite on top.
To surprise their opponents, the special forces planned to escalade the enemy's stronghold under cover of darkness.

Synonyms

to scale

vsto escalade

15 3.1

To climb up a wall or ladder to reach a higher place

focuses on climbing up and over during a ladder-based military attack

Antonyms

to descend

150 2.7

Move from a higher to a lower place

How Difficult

to escalade

Archaic

9.9

to scale

15 3.1

to clamber

19 5.6

to climb

∞ 1.0

to step over

28 1.6

Surface Forms

escalade infinitive

escaladed past

escaladed past participle

escalading present participle

escalades third person singular

Etymology

Escalade comes from an old French word and the Latin scala meaning 'ladder', and it is like the English verb scale when you 'scale' a wall. So to escalade is to climb up and over a wall, often as if using ladders.