STEEPENING Antonyms

• changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface

• complete destruction of a building

• the act of making equal or uniform

• the act of causing to become less

• the act of causing something to move to a lower level

• darkened by clouds

• lessening in intensity or strength

• any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent

• loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer

• the process of becoming softer

• having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin

• change toward something smaller or lower

• a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline

• a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

• a downward slope or bend

• grow worse

• not accept as true

• show unwillingness towards

• grow smaller

• go down

• fall in value

• inflect for number, gender, case, etc.

• make flat or flatter

• become flat or flatter

• lower the pitch of (musical notes)

• lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center

• not deep or strong; not affecting one deeply

• a stretch of shallow water

• lacking depth of intellect or knowledge; concerned only with what is obvious

• make shallow

• become shallow

• having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities

• of the margin of a leaf shape; not broken up into teeth

• (music) without breaks between notes; smooth and connected

• of motion that runs or flows or proceeds without jolts or turbulence

• the act of smoothing

• smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication

• smooth and unconstrained in movement

• lacking obstructions or difficulties

• (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves

• make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing

• make (a surface) shine

• free from obstructions