What is to become steep or steeper. As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. H. Miller called?
steepen — To become steep or steeper. As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. H. Miller. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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