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Definitions
make steeper
Word origin
From steep + -en. Compare Old English stīepan (“to steepen”).
Used in a sentence
“As the way steepened […] I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path.”
“Soon after Crowhurst, the down grade steepens to 1 in 100 as the line descends the side of a valley, at the mouth of which a glimpse of the sea can be caught—the only one.”
“Immediately beyond Churn Lane the climb begins at 1 in 78, steepening to 1 in 66. Speed soon falls and a number of heavy hop-pickers' specials have come to grief here.”
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