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steep sth/sb in sth
[ usually passive ]
If something or someone is steeped in something, they are completely surrounded by or involved in it, or they know a lot about it
• The college is steeped in history/tradition.
• These ancient scholars were steeped in poetry and painting, as well as maths and astronomy.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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steep
nouns
a steep hill
• The car careered down the steep hill.
a steep slope
• Coffee was grown on the steep slopes.
a steep bank
• He scrambled down the steep bank.
a steep path/road
• She stood at the top of the steep path leading down to the beach.
steep stairs
• Martha led the way up the very steep stairs.
the steep sides of something
• The steep sides of the valley were clothed in dense green forest.
a steep gradient
formal (= a steep slope – used especially when talking about how steep something is )
• The Snowdon Mountain Railway has the steepest gradient of any locomotive track in Britain.
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adj. 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).
Oxford Collocations Dictionary