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Definition of Steepened
1. steepen [v] - See also: steepen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steepened
Literary usage of Steepened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alaskan Glacier Studies of the National Geographic Society in the Yakutat by Ralph Stockman Tarr, Lawrence Martin, National Geographic Society (U.S.) (1914)
"In all cases a large porportion of the debris is borne on to the lip of the
valley, thence down the steepened slope to the flatter slope at its base, ..."
2. Alaskan Glacier Studies of the National Geographic Society in the Yakutat by Ralph Stockman Tarr, Lawrence Martin, National Geographic Society (U.S.) (1914)
"In all cases a large porportion of the debris is borne on to the lip of the
valley, thence down the steepened slope to the flatter slope at its base, ..."
3. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"There the stream leaves its broad upland valley and plunges down the steepened
main valley slope, into which it has sunk itself in a narrow and relatively ..."
4. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1882)
"This process has greatly steepened the western face of tho peninsula without
really advancing it lakeward. If comparisons be made further southward on the ..."
5. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1904)
"In some cases these earlier gorges descend the steepened valley slope along a
path entirely apart from that followed by the post-Glacial gorges. ..."
6. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1904)
"In some cases these earlier gorges descend the steepened valley slope along a
path entirely apart from that followed by the post-Glacial gorges. ..."
7. The American Geologist: A Monthly Journal of Geology and Allied Sciences by Newton Horace Winchell (1904)
"In some cases these earlier gorges descend the steepened valley slope along a
path entirely apart from that followed by the post-Glacial gorges. ..."
8. Addresses and Papers of James B. Eads: Together with a Biographical Sketch by James Buchanan Eads (1884)
"This process has greatly steepened the western face of the peninsula without
really advancing it lakeward. If comparisons be made further southward on the ..."