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steepen

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7 lettersPart of speech verbSorted eeenpstStarts with SEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. 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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