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steep
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: st?p, IPA(key): /sti?p/
- Rhymes: -i?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English steep, from Old English st?ap (“high”), from Proto-Germanic *staupaz. Compare Old Frisian st?p, Dutch stoop (“grand; proud”), Middle High German stouf (“towering cliff, precipice”), Middle High German stief (“steep”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, stick”). The Proto-Indo-European root (and related) has many and varied descendants, including English stub; compare also Scots stap (“to strike, to forcibly insert”).
The sense of “sharp slope” is attested circa 1200; the sense “expensive” is attested US 1856.
Adjective
steep (comparative steeper, superlative steepest)
- Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
- (informal) expensive
- (obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
- 1596, George Chapman, De Guiana, carmen Epicum
- Her ears and thoughts in steep amaze erected
- 1596, George Chapman, De Guiana, carmen Epicum
- (of the rake of a ship's mast, or a car's windshield) resulting in a mast or windshield angle that strongly diverges from the perpendicular
Derived terms
- steepen
Synonyms
- (dialectal) brant
Translations
Noun
steep (plural steeps)
- The steep side of a mountain etc.; a slope or acclivity.
- 1833, Banjamin Disraeli, The Wondrous Tale of Alroy
- It ended precipitously in a dark and narrow ravine, formed on the other side by an opposite mountain, the lofty steep of which was crested by a city gently rising on a gradual slope
- 1833, Banjamin Disraeli, The Wondrous Tale of Alroy
Etymology 2
From Middle English stepen, from Old Norse steypa (“to make stoop, cast down, pour out, cast (metal)”), from Proto-Germanic *staupijan? (“to tumble, make tumble, plunge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Danish støbe (“cast (metal)”), Norwegian støpe, støype, Swedish stöpa (“to found, cast (metal)”), Old English st?pian (“to stoop, bend the back, slope”). Doublet of stoop.
Verb
steep (third-person singular simple present steeps, present participle steeping, simple past and past participle steeped)
- (transitive, middle) To soak or wet thoroughly.
- 1820, William Wordsworth, Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's Tower
- In refreshing dews to steep / The little, trembling flowers.
- 1820, William Wordsworth, Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's Tower
- (intransitive, figuratively) To imbue with something; to be deeply immersed in.
- 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue
- The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin.
- 1989, Black 47, Big Fellah:
- We fought against each other, two brothers steeped in blood / But I never doubted that your heart was broken in the flood / And though we had to shoot you down in golden Béal na mBláth / I always knew that Ireland lost her greatest son of all.
Derived terms
- insteep
Translations
Noun
steep (countable and uncountable, plural steeps)
- A liquid used in a steeping process
- Corn steep has many industrial uses.
- A rennet bag.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Estep, Tepes, speet, teeps, tepes
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inundate
English
Etymology
From Latin inund? (“I flood, overflow”), from und? (“I overflow, I wave”), from unda (“wave”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /??n.?n.de?t/
- (UK, also) IPA(key): /??n.?n.de?t/
Verb
inundate (third-person singular simple present inundates, present participle inundating, simple past and past participle inundated)
- To cover with large amounts of water; to flood.
- The Dutch would sometimes inundate the land to hinder the Spanish army.
- To overwhelm.
- The agency was inundated with phone calls.
- 1852, The New Monthly Magazine (page 310)
- I don't know any quarter in England where you get such undeniable mutton—mutton that eats like mutton, instead of the nasty watery, stringy, turnipy stuff, neither mutton nor lamb, that other countries are inundated with.
Synonyms
- (to cover with water): deluge, flood, beflood
- (to overwhelm): deluge, flood, beflood
Related terms
- inundation
- undulate
Translations
Anagrams
- antidune
Esperanto
Adverb
inundate
- present adverbial passive participle of inundi
Latin
Verb
inund?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of inund?
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