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ADJECTIVE steep COMPARATIVE steeper SUPERLATIVE steepest
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steep English

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steep

If a hill or slope is steep, it goes up at a high angle. Be very careful; the hill is very steep and it's easy to fall and hurt yourself. If a price or cost of something is steep, it is very high or expensive. $500 for an old, used television set? No thanks, that's too steep for me.

steep

To soak something in a liquid. To be soaked in a liquid. To be full of some quality. The accident is steeped in mystery. The town is steeped in history.

steep

having a sharp inclination the steep attic stairs steep cliffs (= immerse) devote (oneself) fully to He immersed himself into his studies of a slope; set at a high angle note the steep incline a steep roof sheds snow a steep place (as on a hill) let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse steep the blossoms in oil steep the fruit in alcohol (= exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, unconscionable, usurious) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation exorbitant rent extortionate prices spends an outrageous amount on entertainment usurious interest rate unconscionable spending

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steep · verb

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Simple sentences

The area is surrounded by steep mountains.
We climbed up the steep mountain.
The road across the mountain was narrow, and what's more, it was a steep slope.
We were climbing up the steep mountain.
The 80m-high cliffs, steep from every angle, appear uninviting, even menacing.
The right riverside is steep.
To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Watch your step. The stairs are steep.
He stared at the steep slope.
The path zigzagged up the steep slope.
We climbed a steep slope.
The climb will be steep and difficult.
Climbing that steep mountain is a physical impossibility.
The road from the bus station to Tom's house is very steep.
It's a very steep slope.

Movie subtitles

He originally intended for the tea to be removed and brewed traditionally, but I have discovered that it is far more efficient to steep the tea inside the perforated bag.
I'm not sure I can ride such a steep hill.
Down steep slopes to the valley of the Batuecas inhabited by a solitary monk and his maid.
This happens from time to time on the steep slopes.
It's like the road out in front of my house. lt's on a steep hill.
Looks a little steep. What do you think?
Well, up past it into them chinkapins, then you travel up the steep hill, down past the deer lick into them low, big gaps.
Those back stairs are steep.
They're too steep and rickety. They ought to be fixed.
The path before us is so steep.
Those big wagons with trailers on that steep and narrow road?
But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do, show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst, like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. and minds not his own creed.
And a steep cliff behind.
Those stairs are steep.
Like the road in front of my house, on a steep hill.
The wild pigeons that brood among the steep cliffs have lost all shyness against us.
They're too steep and rickety.
And a steep cliff behind it.
It's too steep up here.
Wait a minute. Those stairs are steep.
I'm glad to be able to walk in the woods again. - It will get very steep.
There are steep valleys in there that take your breath away.
Too steep for me.
Slap on a steep cover charge to keep out the riffraff.
The hospital cost a fortune. and the furniture payments are pretty steep, too.
No, that's too steep for me.
It just means I can't climb stairs that are too steep or go to high places like the bar at the Top of the Mark.
Goat meat is only eaten when a goat dies. This happens from time to time on the steep slopes.
You know, on account of the steep hills.
Your stairs are steep to climb.
I wish he'd made them less steep.
It's a pretty steep buy-in.
Right. That's not too steep, for you?
Better keep stopping to cool them off, if the road isn't too steep.
What if the road is too steep?
But these last seven. came at a steep price.
That's pretty steep.

News and current affairs

The origins of Argentina's crisis date back to decisions taken in 1991, in the fight to contain the steep inflation that marked the death throes of the military junta.
The bubble has now burst, and these economies are heading into a steep recession.
If implemented now, steep rate cuts can still have a significant positive effect.
A more likely culprit for the steep price decline is a combination of the shale-energy revolution in the US and the sharp slowdown in Chinese growth.
In Britain, by contrast, we are now seeing a steep intensification of political controversy, not about enlargement (even though it is unpopular), but about the question of membership of the single currency.
And the flipside of the decline in wage and salaries - a steep rise in the proportion of national income accounted for by corporate profits - has not resulted in booming investment.
But, given the combination of massive monetary support, a now-neutral fiscal stance, a steep fall in oil prices, and a depreciated euro, it is the least we could expect, and it will bring per capita GDP back only to its 2008 level.
Rice paddies need to be constantly flooded, and, because they are often located on steep slopes, this leads to significant runoff of fertilizers and sediment.
Steep decline in Japan's stock and real estate markets at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s left many financial bankruptcies and a weak banking system filled with bad loans.
But there was a steep political price to pay.
Securing 60 votes is a steep hill to climb.
At some point in the future, there will thus need to be steep increases in tax collections, sharp cuts in public spending, or both, to correct Bush's actions.
Many Europeans bought into the US stock market at its peak in 1999 and 2000, only to find themselves selling at steep discounts after the collapse of 2001.
Hundreds of millions more live in fragile habitats on the steep slopes of mountains, or in semi-deserts, or in rain-fed regions where crops fail regularly when rain doesn't arrive.
What is stoppable is the steep rise in Asia's reliance on fossil fuels.
Regulators have proposed steep hikes: a Bank of England study, for example, suggested a more than three-fold increase.
But the steep fall in the value of Italian and Spanish banks' holdings of government debt, combined with mounting bad loans as a result of recessions exacerbated by punitive borrowing costs, is forcing the banks to rein in business lending further.
At Tiger Leaping Gorge, where a mere 100,000 residents will have to be relocated, residents fear that they will be ordered to move up the steep mountainsides to open marginal land at 6,000 to 9,000 feet.
Unfortunately, as those aspirations are addressed, the economy has entered a steep decline, jeopardizing one of the revolution's main goals, namely improvement in Egyptians' living standards and welfare.
Risky projects are at a steep discount today, because the private-sector financial market's risk tolerance has collapsed.
Moreover, the Chinese renminbi is experiencing a fairly steep real appreciation, as inflation in China is rising much more rapidly than in the US or the eurozone.
Now, with serious congestion slowing traffic in major cities to a crawl, the land gradient in housing prices is steep once again.
The situation is a bit fairer today, but Cameron still has a steep hill to climb if he is to win.
Disinflation, when necessary, cannot be as steep.
The budget deficit is now the largest in the EU, and public debt has ballooned, as the government has struggled to compensate for the steep drop in revenues.

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