verb
- soaks in hot liquid to extract flavor or properties
- immerses deeply in a particular quality or influence
noun
- very steep slopes or cliffs
Examples
- She steeps the tea leaves for five minutes.
- The chef steeps the herbs in hot oil.
- The novel steeps readers in medieval atmosphere.
- His childhood steeps him in classical music.
- The mountain’s steeps are dangerous to climb.
- Hikers avoided the rocky steeps.
- The castle sits atop treacherous steeps.