steepen

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make steeper. transitive
    — With a rare and beautiful ease one can now ring up a boffin, as I did the other day, and say: "As a price for not opposing our Parliamentary Powers for a new marshalling yard, the Council at X demands that the bridge over X Lane shall have 16 ft. 6 in. headroom. This means steepening our gradient from 1 in 70 to 1 in 65 for half a mile on a 20-chain curve. What difference will this make to the loads of Type "2", "3" and "4" diesels please?". Back comes the answer.
  2. To become steeper. intransitive
    — As the way steepened […] I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path.

词形变化

steepens present,singular,third-person steepening participle,present steepened participle,past steepened past

词汇关系

衍生词
oversteepen steepener

词源

From steep + -en. Compare Old English stīepan (“to steepen”).
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