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Steeping

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steep

2  [steep] ,
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–verb (used with object)
1. to soak in water or other liquid, as to soften, cleanse, or extract some constituent: to steep tea in boiling-hot water; to steep reeds for basket weaving.
2. to wet thoroughly in or with a liquid; drench; saturate; imbue.
3. to immerse in or saturate or imbue with some pervading, absorbing, or stupefying influence or agency: an incident steeped in mystery.
–verb (used without object)
4. to lie soaking in a liquid.
–noun
5. the act or process of steeping or the state of being steeped.
6. a liquid in which something is steeped.
Origin:
1350–1400; (v.) ME stepen < ?; cf. Sw stöpa; (n.) late ME stepe, deriv. of the v.

Related forms:
steeper, noun

Synonyms:
1. infuse. 2. permeate. 3. bury, engulf.
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steep 2   (stēp)   
v.   steeped, steep·ing, steeps

v.   tr.

  1. To soak in liquid in order to cleanse, soften, or extract a given property from.

  2. To infuse or subject thoroughly to.

  3. To make thoroughly wet; saturate.

v.   intr.
To undergo a soaking in liquid.
n.  

    1. The act or process of steeping.

    2. The state of being steeped.

  2. A liquid, bath, or solution in which something is steeped.


[Middle English stepen, perhaps of Old English origin.]
steep'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
steep

  1. mod.
    [of a price] high; expensive. : Their prices are pretty steep, but their goods are of high quality.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

steep  (adj.)
"having a sharp slope," O.E. steap "high, lofty," from P.Gmc. *staupaz (cf. O.Fris. stap, M.H.G. *stouf), from PIE *steup- "to push, stick, knock, beat," with derivations referring to projecting objects (cf. Gk. typtein "to strike," typos "a blow, mold, die;" Skt. tup- "harm," tundate "pushes, stabs;" Goth. stautan "push;" O.N. stuttr "short"). The sense of "precipitous" is from c.1200. The slang sense "at a high price" is a U.S. coinage first attested 1856.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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