Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to steep
Participle: steeped
Gerund: steeping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | steep |
| you | steep |
| he;she;it | steeps |
| we | steep |
| you | steep |
| they | steep |
Perfect
| I | have steeped |
| you | have steeped |
| he;she;it | has steeped |
| we | have steeped |
| you | have steeped |
| they | have steeped |
Past
| I | steeped |
| you | steeped |
| he;she;it | steeped |
| we | steeped |
| you | steeped |
| they | steeped |
Pluperfect
| I | had steeped |
| you | had steeped |
| he;she;it | had steeped |
| we | had steeped |
| you | had steeped |
| they | had steeped |
Future
| I | will steep |
| you | will steep |
| he;she;it | will steep |
| we | will steep |
| you | will steep |
| they | will steep |
Future Perfect
| I | will have steeped |
| you | will have steeped |
| he;she;it | will have steeped |
| we | will have steeped |
| you | will have steeped |
| they | will have steeped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | steep |
| you | steep |
| he;she;it | steep |
| we | steep |
| you | steep |
| they | steep |
Perfect
| I | have steeped |
| you | have steeped |
| he;she;it | have steeped |
| we | have steeped |
| you | have steeped |
| they | have steeped |
Imperfect
| I | steeped |
| you | steeped |
| he;she;it | steeped |
| we | steeped |
| you | steeped |
| they | steeped |
Pluperfect
| I | had steeped |
| you | had steeped |
| he;she;it | had steeped |
| we | had steeped |
| you | had steeped |
| they | had steeped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would steep |
| you | would steep |
| he;she;it | would steep |
| we | would steep |
| you | would steep |
| they | would steep |
Perfect
| I | would have steeped |
| you | would have steeped |
| he;she;it | would have steeped |
| we | would have steeped |
| you | would have steeped |
| they | would have steeped |
Imperative
| you | steep |
| we | Let's steep |
| you | steep |
Verbs conjugated like 'steep'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'steep'
seep,
sleep,
steek,
steel,
steem,
steen,
steer,
step,
sweep,
teep,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English stepen, from Old Norse steypa (“to make stoop, cast down, pour out, cast (metal)”), from Proto-Germanic *staupijaną (“to tumble, make tumble, plunge”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, hit”). Cognate with Danish støbe (“cast (metal)”), Norwegian støpe, støype, Swedish stöpa (“to found, cast (metal)”), Old English stūpian (“to stoop, bend the back, slope”). Related to stoop. See: Proto-Germanic '
*staupijaną', Danish '
støbe', Swedish '
stöpa'.
Verbs referencing "steep"
Danish
støbe.
Sample Sentences
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[...] The eye was pained to see the stumps of great trees thickly strewn in every field of wheat, and seldom to lose the eternal swamp and dull morass, with hundreds of rotten trunks and twisted branches steeped in its unwholesome water. It was quite sad and oppressive, to come upon great tracts where settlers had been burning down the trees, and where their wounded bodies lay about, like those of murdered [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)