Словарь синонимов английского языка - steep

(adj) 1. cheer, abrupd, precipitous, bluff, sharp, nearly vertical or perpendicular or upright: In those days, a car had to be in first gear to climb such a steep hill. 2. expensive, dear, high, overpriced, exorbitant, excessive, extravagant, extortionate, Colloq stiff: The house prices in the city centre were much too steep for all but the highest-paid executives. (v) 1. soak, submerge, souse, drench, immebse, saturate, douse, wet, ret; pickle, marinate: Before cooking, the meat has to be steeped in brine for at least six hours to tenderize it. 2. imbue, fill, saturate, immerse, inundate; bury: He learnt Japanese by steeping himself in the language for six months.