Crossword clues for steeped
steeped
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steep \Steep\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Steeped (st[=e]pt); p. pr. & vb. n. Steeping.] [OE. stepen, probably fr. Icel. steypa to cause to stoop, cast down, pour out, to cast metals, causative of st[=u]pa to stoop; cf. Sw. st["o]pa to cast, to steep, Dan. st["o]be, D. & G. stippen to steep, to dip. Cf. Stoop, v. i.] To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively.
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
--Shak.
In refreshing dew to steep
The little, trembling flowers.
--Wordsworth.
The learned of the nation were steeped in Latin.
--Earle.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: steep)
Usage examples of "steeped".
Doth the cloud perish, when the beams are fled Which steeped its skirts in gold?
Some said he was a man of blood and peril, And steeped in bitter infamy to the lips.
She was even more steeped in superstition than the Martians of the outer world.
Beside it was the tightly woven basket in which she steeped his morning tea, and a freshly peeled birch twig.
He found her mint leaves, and soon had the tea steeped and ready, but Ayla still slept.
The forest was steeped in a steam from overheat, overmoisture, overgrowth.
His mind seemed to have grown old, steeped in monotonous thoughts of wolf and track.
She assembled a platter of fresh heavy bread and soft cheese while the leaves steeped in the bubbling water.
Unfreezing, his left-behind body would rot while his soul was steeped in hellfire, bandied around, a plaything for monsters forever.