Clambered vs Scrambled - What's the difference?
clambered | scrambled |
(clamber)
To climb with some difficulty, or in a haphazard fashion.
* Tennyson
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
* 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 22. p. 220.
*:And in a trice he has clambered onto the kitchen dresser and is reaching for the top shelf.
Mixed, disordered, shuffled.
(rfc-sense) ( of eggs) and cooked.
(scramble)
As verbs the difference between clambered and scrambled
is that clambered is (clamber) while scrambled is (scramble).As an adjective scrambled is
mixed, disordered, shuffled.clambered
English
Verb
(head)clamber
English
Verb
(en verb)- The children clambered over the jungle gym with reckless abandon.
- The narrow street that clambered toward the mill.
- Thus, sitting where I was, I lit my candle once more, and then clambered across that great coffin which, for two hours or more, had been a mid-wall of partition between me and danger. But to get out of the niche was harder than to get in; for now that I had a candle to light me, I saw that the coffin, though sound enough to outer view, was wormed through and through, and little better than a rotten shell. So it was that I had some ado to get over it, not daring either to kneel upon it or to bring much weight to bear with my hand, lest it should go through.
- He would clamber about the roof and windows for hours attempting to discover means of ingress, but to the door he paid little attention, for this was apparently as solid as the walls.
scrambled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He always ate his eggs fried, never scrambled .