STEEP

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steep¹ I. adjectiv

1. abrupt, iute, repede, măluros, prăpăstios, râpos; povârnit;

steep climb urcuş repede;

the slopes grow steeper coastele devin iuţi.

2. (fig.) exagerat, tare;

that’s a bit steep e cam prea de tot;

steep price preţ exorbitant.

steep¹ II. substantiv

prăpastie, râpă.

steep¹ III. adverb

brusc, rapid, abrupt;

cliff that falls steep into sea faleză abruptă.

steep² verb tranzitiv

1. a muia, a cufunda (într-un lichid).

2. a opări (ceaiul etc.).

3. (fig.) a îneca, a băga, cufunda, a scălda;

steeped in tears scăldat în lacrimi;

steeped in ignorance cufundat în ignoranţă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

If I may so express it, I was steeped in Dora.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I marked it yester-night, said Felton, and no better spot could be found for our purpose, for it is very steep at the back.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This I was afterwards told, for I durst not stay to see the issue of the adventure; but ran as fast as I could the way I first went, and then climbed up a steep hill, which gave me some prospect of the country.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

How we got out of the Slough and through the Wicket Gate by resolving to be good, and up the steep hill by trying, and that maybe the house over there, full of splendid things, is going to be our Palace Beautiful.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

The valley is beautifully green, and it is so steep that when you are on the high land on either side you look right across it, unless you are near enough to see down.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

There was too much wind to make the high part of the new Cobb pleasant for the ladies, and they agreed to get down the steps to the lower, and all were contented to pass quietly and carefully down the steep flight, excepting Louisa; she must be jumped down them by Captain Wentworth.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

One consolation however remained for them, to which the exigence of the moment gave more than usual propriety; it was that of running with all possible speed down the steep side of the hill which led immediately to their garden gate.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

The youngest son fell to the bottom of the river’s bed: luckily it was nearly dry, but his bones were almost broken, and the bank was so steep that he could find no way to get out.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

By Saint Paul! if it were not that these hills are over-steep for Pommers, I would ride to these cavaliers of Navarre and see if there were not some among them who would help me to take this patch from mine eye.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once we saw a man, who seemed not quite sober, passing along a street in front of us; but we hid in a door till he had disappeared up an opening such as there are here, steep little closes, or wynds, as they call them in Scotland.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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