what does rappel mean?
RAPPEL as VERB
- Meaning
- lower oneself with a double rope coiled around the body from a mountainside
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Usage Example(s)
- The ascent was easy–roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous
- You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing
Hypernyms(s) rappel is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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