Crossword clues for steepening
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steepen \Steep"en\ (st[=e]p"'n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Steepened (st[=e]p"'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Steepening.] 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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of steepen English)
Usage examples of "steepening".
I became aware of the sound of my breath, whistling and humming crazily into the stone: the cliff was steepening, and I was laboring backbreakingly for every inch.
I used my own knee and insisted, presenting strike after strike and going beyond the matter of physical force and adding the strength of zen and two or three times his breath was caught in his throat and I knew I'd given pain and perhaps with any luck had found a nerve, the femoral or the rectus femoris, inducing paralysis, but the effort had been appalling because of the tension already there in the muscles and I brought it down, dangerously, to the point where I could recover a small measure of the strength I'd need when the final effort had to be made, a half-second or a minute from now, no later than a minute because fatigue moves into a steepening curve towards the point of total exhaustion.
But soon her thoughts were on the path as they crossed narrow,' miraculous meadows, then scrublands where simlas grazed, and beyond to a steepening pass wedged between two hills.
But soon her thoughts were on the path as they crossed narrow,’ miraculous meadows, then scrublands where simlas grazed, and beyond to a steepening pass wedged between two hills.