| 释义 | steepensteep‧en /ˈstiːpən/ verb [intransitive, transitive]    VERB TABLEsteepen |
 | Present | I, you, we, they | steepen |  |  | he, she, it | steepens |  | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | steepened |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have steepened |  |  | he, she, it | has steepened |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had steepened |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will steepen |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have steepened | 
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 | Present | I | am steepening |  |  | he, she, it | is steepening |  |  | you, we, they | are steepening |  | Past | I, he, she, it | was steepening |  |  | you, we, they | were steepening |  | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been steepening |  |  | he, she, it | has been steepening |  | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been steepening |  | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be steepening |  | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been steepening | 
Addition of successively higher odd harmonics steepens the wings and reduces the amplitude of the fluctuations in between.After a few seconds the attitude should be allowed to steepen up gradually and smoothly until the full climbing angle is reached.As his dive steepened he felt the speed pick up again; there was still life in the controls, somewhere.Eventually the rock steepens and turns blocky.Killion steepened his dive and began picking his targets.The glider should not be steepened up or levelled out immediately after leaving the ground.The valley of the White Kielder Burn steepened again as I trudged north, its curves tightening.We made it to the Pastukhov rocks without a break and steered left where the slope steepened considerably.
verbsteepsteepennounsteepnessadjectivesteepadverbsteeplyif a slope, road etc steepens, or if something steepens it, it becomes steeper |