Definition of Steepened

1. Verb. (past of steepen) ¹

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Definition of Steepened

1. steepen [v] - See also: steepen

Lexicographical Neighbors of Steepened

steen
steenbok
steenboks
steenbuck
steenbucks
steened
steening
steenings
steens
steep
steep-slope roof
steep-slope roofs
steep-slope rooves
steeped
steepen
steepened
steepening
steepens
steeper
steepers
steepest
steepeup
steepie
steepier
steepiest
steepiness
steeping
steepish
steeple
steeplebush

Literary usage of Steepened

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Alaskan Glacier Studies of the National Geographic Society in the Yakutat by Ralph Stockman Tarr, Lawrence Martin, National Geographic Society (U.S.) (1914)
"In all cases a large porportion of the debris is borne on to the lip of the valley, thence down the steepened slope to the flatter slope at its base, ..."

2. Alaskan Glacier Studies of the National Geographic Society in the Yakutat by Ralph Stockman Tarr, Lawrence Martin, National Geographic Society (U.S.) (1914)
"In all cases a large porportion of the debris is borne on to the lip of the valley, thence down the steepened slope to the flatter slope at its base, ..."

3. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"There the stream leaves its broad upland valley and plunges down the steepened main valley slope, into which it has sunk itself in a narrow and relatively ..."

4. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1882)
"This process has greatly steepened the western face of tho peninsula without really advancing it lakeward. If comparisons be made further southward on the ..."

5. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1904)
"In some cases these earlier gorges descend the steepened valley slope along a path entirely apart from that followed by the post-Glacial gorges. ..."

6. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1904)
"In some cases these earlier gorges descend the steepened valley slope along a path entirely apart from that followed by the post-Glacial gorges. ..."

7. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1904)
"In some cases these earlier gorges descend the steepened valley slope along a path entirely apart from that followed by the post-Glacial gorges. ..."

8. Addresses and Papers of James B. Eads: Together with a Biographical Sketch by James Buchanan Eads (1884)
"This process has greatly steepened the western face of the peninsula without really advancing it lakeward. If comparisons be made further southward on the ..."

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