"steepen" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1960 April, G. F. Fiennes, “Unpunctuality - the cause and the cure”, in Trains Illustrated, page 244",
          "text": "With a rare and beautiful ease one can now ring up a boffin, as I did the other day, and say: \"As a price for not opposing our Parliamentary Powers for a new marshalling yard, the Council at X demands that the bridge over X Lane shall have 16 ft. 6 in. headroom. This means steepening our gradient from 1 in 70 to 1 in 65 for half a mile on a 20-chain curve. What difference will this make to the loads of Type \"2\", \"3\" and \"4\" diesels please?\". Back comes the answer.",
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        "To make steeper."
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        "(transitive) To make steeper."
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          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "pravja po-strǎmen",
          "sense": "to make steeper",
          "word": "правя по-стръмен"
        },
        {
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to make steeper",
          "word": "steiler machen"
        },
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          "_dis1": "88 12",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to make steeper",
          "word": "géaraigh"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to make steeper",
          "word": "mānihi"
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          "text": "H. Miller\nAs the way steepened […] I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path."
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          "ref": "1960 March, H. P. White, “The Hawkhurst branch of the Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 170",
          "text": "Immediately beyond Churn Lane the climb begins at 1 in 78, steepening to 1 in 66. Speed soon falls and a number of heavy hop-pickers' specials have come to grief here.",
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        "To become steeper."
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        "(intransitive) To become steeper."
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pravja po-strǎmen",
      "sense": "to make steeper",
      "word": "правя по-стръмен"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to make steeper",
      "word": "steiler machen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to make steeper",
      "word": "géaraigh"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to make steeper",
      "word": "mānihi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "steepen"
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