Steep

Adjective

 * 1) Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
 * 2)  expensive
 * That's a bit steep. 

Verb

 * 1) To soak an item (or to be soaked) in liquid in order to gradually add or remove components to or from the item
 * Skins are steeped in a tanning solution to create leather
 * 1) To be imbued with an abstract quality
 * A town steeped in history
 * 1) 🇺🇸 and  To make tea (or other beverage) by placing leaves in hot water.

Noun

 * 1) A liquid used in a steeping process
 * Corn steep has many industrial uses

Adverbs for Steep
precipitously; alarmingly; Impossibly; startlingly; unexpectedly; perilously; hazardously; suddenly; starkly; abruptly; unreasonably; excessively; remarkably; incalculably;inaccessibly; boldly; exorbitantly; extravagantly; unwarrantably; unreasonably; painfully; formidably; forbiddingly; curiously; particularly; immoderately.

Thesaurus
Herculean, Olympian, Olympian heights, a bit much, abandoned, abrupt, abstruse, acme, aerial, aerial heights, airy, altitudinous, apex, arduous, ascending, aspiring, bathe, besprinkle, bluff, bold, boundless, breakneck, breathe, brew, brutal, bury, cliff, color, colossal, complex, concentrate, costly, crag, critical, dear, dear-bought, decoct, delicate, demanding, difficile, difficult, distill, dizzy heights, dominating, douche, douse, dredge, drench, drouk, dye, egregious, elevated, elevation, eminence, eminent, enormous, entincture, escarpment, essentialize, ether, ethereal, exacting, exaggerated, exalted, excessive, exorbitant, expensive, express, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, face, fancy, fill, flavor, flush, formidable, gigantic, gluttonous, hairy, hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, haughty, headlong, heaven, heavens, height, heights, high, high-pitched, high-priced, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, imbrue, imbue, immerse, immoderate, impregnate, incontinent, infiltrate, infuse, ingrain, inject, inoculate, inordinate, instill, intemperate, intricate, inundate, invest, jawbreaking, knotted, knotty, laborious, lave, leach, leaven, lift, lixiviate, lofty, luxurious, macerate, marinate, mean, melt down, monstrous, monumental, mounting, no picnic, not affordable, not easy, of great cost, operose, orthodiagonal, orthogonal, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, outtopping, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overlooking, overmuch, overpriced, overtopping, overweening, palisade, palisades, penetrate, percolate, permeate, perpendicular, pervade, pickle, plumb, plunging, precipice, precipitous, premium, press out, pricey, prominent, raise, rapid, refine, render, rich, right-angle, right-angled, right-angular, rigorous, rinse, rise, rising ground, rough, rugged, saturate, scar, scarp, season, seethe, set with thorns, severe, sharp, sheer, sky, soak, soaring, sodden, sop, souse, spiny, spiring, stiff, straight-up, straight-up-and-down, stratosphere, strenuous, sublime, submerge, suffuse, sumptuous, superlative, supernal, temper, thorny, ticklish, tincture, tinge, toilsome, too much, top, topless, toplofty, topping, tough, towering, towery, transfuse, tricky, unbridled, unconscionable, undue, unpayable, unreasonable, unrestrained, up-and-down, uphill, uplifted, upreared, uprise, vantage ground, vantage point, vertical, wall, wash, waterlog, wet, wicked, wring, wring out, zenith

Etymology 1
steap:, from (compare  stap:,  *undefined:), from. The Proto-Indo-European root (and related) has many and varied descendants, including English stub:; compare also stap:.

The sense of “sharp slope” is attested circa 1200; the sense “expensive” is attested US 1856.

Etymology 2
From stepen:, from  steypa: , from , from. Cognate with Danish støbe:, Norwegian støpe:, støype:, stöpa:,  stupian:. More at.

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian: meredek
 * Icelandic: brattur, hallur, snarbrattur
 * Italian: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: praeruptus


 * Norwegian: bratt
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:íngreme
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: стрмо
 * Roman: strmo
 * Spanish:, escarpado, empinado, acantilado, precipitoso, abrupto
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * Dutch:
 * French: ,


 * Hebrew: להשרות


 * French: imprégner


 * French:


 * Polish: zaparzyc