steep
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Is steep a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (informal) Expensive.Examples: "Twenty quid for a shave? That's a bit steep."informal
2. (obsolete) Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.Examples: "Her ears and thoughts in steep amaze erected"obsolete
3. (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.Examples: "The steep rake of the windshield enhances the fast lines of the exterior."
verb (English)
1. (transitive, middle voice) To soak or wet thoroughly.Examples: "They steep skins in a tanning solution to create leather."; "The tea is steeping."; "A Greek historian Phylarchus describes a white root indigenous to India that caused eunuchism when a person bathed in water in which the root was steeped."transitive
2. (intransitive, figurative) To imbue with something; to be deeply immersed in.Examples: "a town steeped in history"; "The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin."; "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."figurativelyintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary