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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.
verbsteepsteepennounsteepnessadjectivesteepadverbsteeply if a slope, road etc steepens, or if something steepens it, it becomes steeper |