Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending with a great inclination; precipitous; as a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity.
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1. A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock or ascent; any elevated object which slopes with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice.
2. We had on each side rocks and mountains broken into a thousand irregular steps and precipices.
To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to imbue; to keep any thing in a liquid till it has thoroughly imbibed it, or till the liquor has extracted the essential qualities of the substance. Thus cloth is steeped in lye or other liquid in bleaching or dyeing. But plants and drugs are steeped in water, wine and the like, for the purpose of tincturing the liquid with their qualities.
Bright; glittering; fiery.
3. A precipitous place, hill, mountain, rock, or ascent; any elevated object sloping with a large angle to the plane of the horizon; a precipice.
To undergo the process of soaking in a liquid; as, the tea is steeping.
1. To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively.
2. Making a large angle with the plane of the horizon; ascending or descending rapidly with respect to a horizontal line or a level; precipitous; as, a steep hill or mountain; a steep roof; a steep ascent; a steep declivity; a steep barometric gradient.
3. Difficult of access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
4. Excessive; as, a steep price.
Deep and precipitous, having steep descent.
Lofty and precipitous.
To become steep or steeper.
of Steepen
Steepness.
Somewhat steep.
1. A turret of a church, ending in a point; a spire. It differs from a tower, which usually ends in a square form, thought the name is sometimes given to a tower. The bell of a church is usually hung in the steeple
2. They, far from steeples and their sacred sound---
A church. [Not in use.]
The act of riding steeple chases.
Furnished with a steeple; adorned with steeples or towers.
Furnished with, or having the form of, a steeple; adorned with steeples.
With steepness; with precipitous declivity.
In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
The state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as the steepness of a hill, a bank or a roof.
1. Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof.
2. Height; loftiness.
1. Having a steep or precipitous declivity; as steepy crags; a poetical word.
2. No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb the steepy cliffs.
Steep; precipitous.
Water Roget’s Thesaurus §337
N. water, serum, serosity, lymph, rheum, diluent, agua, aqua, pani, dilution, maceration, lotion, washing, immersion|, humectation, infiltration, spargefaction|, affusion, irrigation, douche, balneation, bath, deluge, high water, flood tide
V. be watery, reek, add water, water, wet, moisten, dilute, dip, immerse, merge, immerge, submerge, plunge, souse, duck, drown, soak, steep, macerate, pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench, dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge, syringe, inject, gargle
Phr. the waters are out
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6 KJV and 4 BSB verses contain “Steep”
And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes and watering holes.
So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.