steep
US: /ˈstip/
UK: /stˈiːp/
UK: /stˈiːp/
English Vietnamese dictionary
steep /sti:p/
- tính từ
- dốc
- steep hill: đồi dốc
- (thông tục) quá quắt, không biết đều
- steep demand: sự đòi hỏi quá quắt
- ngoa, phóng đại, không thể tin được
- steep story: câu chuyện không thể tin được
- dốc
- danh từ
- dốc, chỗ dốc, sườn dốc
- sự ngâm (vào nước)
- to put something in steep: ngâm vật gì
- nước ngâm
- ngoại động từ
- ngâm vào nước
- to steep in: thấm, ngấm vào; mê mải, miệt mài
- steeped in slumber: ngủ mê mệt
- steeped in misery: nghèo rớt mồng tơi
- ngâm vào nước
- nội động từ
- bị ngâm
Advanced English dictionary
adjective, verb
+ adjective (steeper, steepest)
1 (of a slope, hill, etc.) rising or falling quickly, not gradually: a steep hill / slope / bank + a steep climb / descent / drop + a steep flight of stairs + The path grew steeper as we climbed higher.
2 [usually before noun] (of a rise or fall in an amount) sudden and very big: a steep decline in the birth rate + a steep rise in unemployment
3 (informal) (of a price or demand) too much; unreasonable: £2 for a cup of coffee seems a little steep to me.
steeply adverb: a steeply sloping roof + The path climbed steeply upwards. + Prices rose steeply.
steepness noun [U]
verb
Idioms: be steeped in sth (written) to have a lot of a particular quality: a city steeped in history
Phrasal Verbs: steep sth in sth to put food in a liquid and leave it for some time so that it becomes soft and flavoured by the liquid: Steep the fruit in brandy overnight.
steep yourself in sth (written) to spend a lot of time thinking or learning about sth: They spent a month steeping themselves in Chinese culture.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 sheer, abrupt, precipitous, bluff, sharp, nearly vertical or perpendicular or upright:
In those days, a car had to be in first gear to climb such a steep hill.
2 expensive, dear, high, overpriced, exorbitant, excessive, extravagant, extortionate, Colloq stiff:
The house prices in the city centre were much too steep for all but the highest-paid executives.
v.
1 soak, submerge, souse, drench, immerse, saturate, douse, wet, ret; pickle, marinate:
Before cooking, the meat has to be steeped in brine for at least six hours to tenderize it.
2 imbue, fill, saturate, immerse, inundate; bury:
He learnt Japanese by steeping himself in the language for six months.
Collocation dictionary
VERBS
be, look, seem | become, get
ADV.
extremely, impossibly, incredibly, really, terribly, very
an incredibly steep hill
| increasingly | fairly, pretty, quite, rather, relatively | deceptively
The terrain is often deceptively steep (= steeper than you expect).
Concise English dictionary
steeps|steeped|steeping|steeper|steepeststɪːp
noun
+a steep place (as on a hill)
verb
+engross (oneself) fully
+let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse
adj.
+having a sharp inclination
+greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
+of a slope; set at a high angle
