steep

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

steeper

Superlative

steepest

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

steeps

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

steep

past (v2)

steeped

past participle (v3)

steeped

present participle

steeping

3rd person singular

steeps

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.

   • Up these steep walkways cannelured for footpurchase, the free passage of roaches.

2. 2.Expensive.(informal)

   • Twenty quid for a shave? That's a bit steep.

3. 3.resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly diverges from the perpendicular.

   • The steep rake of the windshield enhances the fast lines of the exterior.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To soak or wet thoroughly.

   • They steep skins in a tanning solution to create leather.
   • In refreshing dews to steep / The little, trembling flowers.
   • A Greek historian Phylarchus describes a white root indigenous to India that caused eunuchism when a person bathed in water in which the root was steeped.

2. 2.To imbue with something; to be deeply immersed in.

   • The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A rennet bag.

2. 2.The steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity.

3. 3.A liquid used in a steeping process

   • Corn steep has many industrial uses.

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