--- title: S — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 94 description: The 2316 words of the English dictionary under S, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/page/94/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / S # S — The English dictionary · page 94 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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*Everyday, meaning 1:* Rising or falling sharply, like a slope that is hard to climb.[↗](../../steep/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A price that is much too high.[↗](../../steep/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "That's a bit steep!"[↗](../../steep/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A big change.[↗](../../steep/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *e.g.* "a steep rise in prices".[↗](../../steep/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* As a verb, to soak something in liquid, like tea leaves in hot water.[↗](../../steep/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The hill was too steep to ride up.[↗](../../steep/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Walk carefully down the steep path.[↗](../../steep/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A steeper ramp makes the ball roll faster.[↗](../../steep/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · On the graph, the line gets steep when the temperature rises fast.[↗](../../steep/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Ten dollars for a drink is a bit steep\![↗](../../steep/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Steep the tea for three minutes.[↗](../../steep/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Then they knocked at the door, which opened straight on to a steep staircase.[↗](../../steep/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · And the mountains shall be molten under Him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.[↗](../../steep/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets MIC.1.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../steep/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **steeple** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A steeple is the tall pointed tower on top of a church.[↗](../../steeple/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The church steeple is very tall.[↗](../../steeple/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A bell rang from the steeple.[↗](../../steeple/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Birds nested high in the steeple.[↗](../../steeple/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **steepness** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Steepness is how steep something is: how sharply a slope, hill, road or roof goes up or down.[↗](../../steepness/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (maths) In maths the steepness of a line is measured by its gradient or slope: how far it goes up for every step across.[↗](../../steepness/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The steepness of the hill made us get off our bikes and push.[↗](../../steepness/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · On a map, close contour lines show great steepness.[↗](../../steepness/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We changed the steepness of the ramp and timed the car.[↗](../../steepness/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The steepness of the roof lets snow slide off.[↗](../../steepness/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The steepness of the line on the graph shows how fast the plant grew.[↗](../../steepness/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Grandad was worried about the steepness of the steps.[↗](../../steepness/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **steer** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To steer is to control which way a car, bike, boat or other vehicle goes.[↗](../../steer/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To steer is also to guide a person or a talk in a certain direction.[↗](../../steer/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A steer is a young male cow kept for meat.[↗](../../steer/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* A steer (informal) is a piece of advice or a hint.[↗](../../steer/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Steer your bike around the puddle.[↗](../../steer/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad steered the car into the parking space.[↗](../../steer/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The captain steered the ship into the harbour.[↗](../../steer/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Steer clear of that dog; it bites.[↗](../../steer/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher steered the talk back to maths.[↗](../../steer/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The farmer sold three steers at the market.[↗](../../steer/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Hold the handlebars with both hands so you can steer.[↗](../../steer/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · She steered her little brother away from the road.[↗](../../steer/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · So she ordered the old boatman to steer for Squirrel Island.[↗](../../steer/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **steersman** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (old use) A steersman is the person who steers a boat or ship, keeping it on its course.[↗](../../steersman/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The steersman held the wheel steady.[↗](../../steersman/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Our steersman called out the course.[↗](../../steersman/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A good steersman knows the stars.[↗](../../steersman/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **stegosaurus** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A stegosaurus was a large plant-eating dinosaur with two rows of big bony plates along its back and sharp spikes on its tail.[↗](../../stegosaurus/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* The name means «roof lizard» because people once thought its plates lay flat like roof tiles.[↗](../../stegosaurus/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The stegosaurus had plates on its back and spikes on its tail.[↗](../../stegosaurus/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Stegosaurus ate ferns and low plants.[↗](../../stegosaurus/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We saw a stegosaurus skeleton at the Natural History Museum.[↗](../../stegosaurus/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A stegosaurus was as long as a bus.[↗](../../stegosaurus/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Its brain was surprisingly small, about the size of a dog's.[↗](../../stegosaurus/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The plates may have helped it warm up or show off to other stegosauruses.[↗](../../stegosaurus/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · My little brother's favourite dinosaur toy is a green stegosaurus.[↗](../../stegosaurus/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **stele** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (history) An upright stone slab or pillar with writing or carvings on it, put up as a monument, gravestone or to record laws or events.[↗](../../stele/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (science, botany) The central core of a plant's root or stem, which carries water and food.[↗](../../stele/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Hammurabi's laws were carved on a tall black stele.[↗](../../stele/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The Rosetta Stone is a broken piece of a stele.[↗](../../stele/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The Maya put up stelae to honour their kings.[↗](../../stele/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The stele marks the grave of an ancient soldier.[↗](../../stele/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · We saw a carved stele in the British Museum.[↗](../../stele/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The archaeologists cleaned the stele to read the old writing.[↗](../../stele/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **stellar** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Stellar means about stars in space: stellar light, stellar systems.[↗](../../stellar/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* (informal) Stellar means excellent, brilliant, outstanding: a stellar performance.[↗](../../stellar/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Our Sun is a stellar object, just one star among billions.[↗](../../stellar/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Astronomers study stellar explosions called supernovae.[↗](../../stellar/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The Orion Nebula is a stellar nursery.[↗](../../stellar/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She gave a stellar performance in the school play.[↗](../../stellar/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The goalkeeper had a stellar season.[↗](../../stellar/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Your homework is stellar; well done\![↗](../../stellar/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Stellar winds blow particles out from stars.[↗](../../stellar/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **stem** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A stem is the long thin part of a plant that holds up the leaves and flowers.[↗](../../stem/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* A stem is also any thin part like that, such as the stem of a wine glass or an apple stalk.[↗](../../stem/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In grammar, the stem is the main part of a word before endings are added.[↗](../../stem/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To stem from means to come from or be caused by.[↗](../../stem/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* STEM means science, technology, engineering and maths.[↗](../../stem/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The stem holds the flower up towards the sun.[↗](../../stem/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Water travels up the stem to the leaves.[↗](../../stem/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Cut the stems of the roses before you put them in a vase.[↗](../../stem/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Pull the stem off the apple.[↗](../../stem/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In a stem-and-leaf plot, 34 has stem 3 and leaf 4.[↗](../../stem/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Her fear of dogs stems from a bad bite.[↗](../../stem/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Our school has a STEM club on Fridays.[↗](../../stem/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The stem of «running» is «run».[↗](../../stem/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · There were no fewer than thirty blossoms on its stem.[↗](../../stem/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **stench** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A stench is a very bad smell.[↗](../../stench/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The stench of the bins filled the street.[↗](../../stench/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · We held our noses at the stench.[↗](../../stench/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A stench rose from the swamp.[↗](../../stench/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Their slain also shall be cast out, and the stench of their carcasses shall come up, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.[↗](../../stench/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.34.3, JPS 1917)[↗](../../stench/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") **stencil** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A stencil is a thin sheet of card, plastic or metal with shapes or letters cut out of it; you paint or colour through the holes to copy the shapes onto a surface underneath.[↗](../../stencil/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To stencil is to make a pattern or letters this way.[↗](../../stencil/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A stencil can also be the picture made using it.[↗](../../stencil/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I used a star stencil to decorate my card.[↗](../../stencil/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Hold the stencil still and dab paint over it.[↗](../../stencil/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · We stencilled our names on our school bags.[↗](../../stencil/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Banksy is famous for stencil graffiti.[↗](../../stencil/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Ancient hand stencils were found on cave walls.[↗](../../stencil/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The road workers stencilled "SLOW" on the road.[↗](../../stencil/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Use a shape stencil to draw a perfect hexagon.[↗](../../stencil/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **step** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A step is one movement of your foot when you walk.[↗](../../step/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Steps are the flat parts of stairs that you walk up.[↗](../../step/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A step is one part of a process: the first step of a recipe.[↗](../../step/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* To step is to move by lifting your foot and putting it down.[↗](../../step/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 5:* «Step by step» means slowly, one part after another.[↗](../../step/#m5 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Mia walks 2000 steps a day.[↗](../../step/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The tower has 120 steps.[↗](../../step/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · He climbed 15 steps and then 20 more.[↗](../../step/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Each step is 2 feet long.[↗](../../step/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Solve the problem step by step.[↗](../../step/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Watch your step, the floor is wet.[↗](../../step/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The baby took her first steps today.[↗](../../step/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Step aside to let the people pass.[↗](../../step/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · He sat lifeless on the steps.[↗](../../step/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto Mine altar, that thy nakedness be not uncovered thereon.[↗](../../step/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Torah EXO.20.26, JPS 1917)[↗](../../step/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · Nevertheless, this work is expensive, so in order to keep providing this resource, we have taken steps to prevent abuse by commercial parties, including placing technical restrictions on automated querying.[↗](../../step/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../step/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") · whole number of things, we multiply at each step by a number decreased by a unit " (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../step/#x12 "tree and pragmatics") · I would with one step burn it altogether.[↗](../../step/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets ISA.27.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../step/#x13 "tree and pragmatics") · How beautiful are thy steps in sandals, O prince's daughter\![↗](../../step/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings SNG.7.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../step/#x14 "tree and pragmatics") · Doth not He see my ways, and count all my steps?[↗](../../step/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings JOB.31.4, JPS 1917)[↗](../../step/#x15 "tree and pragmatics") **stepbrother** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A boy or man who is the son of your stepmother or stepfather, but not the son of your own mother or father.[↗](../../stepbrother/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My stepbrother and I share a bedroom at weekends.[↗](../../stepbrother/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · When Mum married Tom, his son became my stepbrother.[↗](../../stepbrother/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Cinderella had stepsisters, not stepbrothers.[↗](../../stepbrother/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · I have one sister and two stepbrothers.[↗](../../stepbrother/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My stepbrother taught me how to ride a skateboard.[↗](../../stepbrother/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We are not related by blood, but he is my stepbrother.[↗](../../stepbrother/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **stepdaughter** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A stepdaughter is a girl who is the child of your husband or wife from an earlier marriage, not your own child by birth.[↗](../../stepdaughter/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The stepdaughter did all the work.[↗](../../stepdaughter/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · My stepdaughter lives with us at weekends.[↗](../../stepdaughter/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The king's stepdaughter was kind to the birds.[↗](../../stepdaughter/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **stepfather** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A stepfather is a man who is married to your mother but is not your birth father.[↗](../../stepfather/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My stepfather takes me to football practice.[↗](../../stepfather/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Her mum married again, so she has a stepfather now.[↗](../../stepfather/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · I call my stepfather by his first name.[↗](../../stepfather/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · My stepdad makes the best pancakes.[↗](../../stepfather/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · He has a father and a stepfather who both love him.[↗](../../stepfather/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Tom's stepfather came to the school play.[↗](../../stepfather/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · A stepfather is part of a blended family.[↗](../../stepfather/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The young prince was thankful that his stepfather was going to the war, and secretly hoped he might never come back.[↗](../../stepfather/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **stepmother** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* The woman who is married to (or the partner of) your father but is not your birth mother.[↗](../../stepmother/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My stepmother helps me with my homework.[↗](../../stepmother/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Dad married my stepmother when I was six.[↗](../../stepmother/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Cinderella's stepmother made her do all the chores.[↗](../../stepmother/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · I call my stepmother by her first name.[↗](../../stepmother/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My stepmother and my mum both came to the school play.[↗](../../stepmother/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Fairy tales often have a wicked stepmother, but mine is lovely.[↗](../../stepmother/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Then her stepmother came back too.[↗](../../stepmother/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **stepparent** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A stepparent is the person who is married to your mother or father but is not your birth parent: a stepmother or a stepfather.[↗](../../stepparent/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My stepparent, Mark, helps me with my maths homework.[↗](../../stepparent/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · When Mum married Dave, he became my stepparent.[↗](../../stepparent/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Lots of kids in my class have a stepparent.[↗](../../stepparent/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A stepparent can love a child just like a birth parent.[↗](../../stepparent/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Cinderella's stepparent was very cruel to her.[↗](../../stepparent/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Both my stepparents came to sports day.[↗](../../stepparent/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **steppe** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A huge, flat area of grassland with few trees, especially in eastern Europe and Asia.[↗](../../steppe/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Herds of horses roamed the steppe.[↗](../../steppe/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The steppes of Central Asia stretch for thousands of miles.[↗](../../steppe/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Few trees grow on the steppe because it is dry.[↗](../../steppe/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Nomads lived in tents on the steppe.[↗](../../steppe/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The steppe is like the prairie of North America.[↗](../../steppe/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Ukraine has wide steppes in the south.[↗](../../steppe/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · And Saul cast the spear; for he said: 'I will smite David even to the wall.'[↗](../../steppe/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") And David stepped aside out of his presence twice.[↗](../../steppe/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") (Prophets 1SA.18.11, JPS 1917)[↗](../../steppe/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **stepsister** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A girl or woman who is the daughter of your stepmother or stepfather, but not the daughter of your own mother or father.[↗](../../stepsister/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* My stepsister is the same age as me.[↗](../../stepsister/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Cinderella's stepsisters made her do all the work.[↗](../../stepsister/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · I get on really well with my stepsister.[↗](../../stepsister/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · When Dad married Sarah, her daughter Lucy became my stepsister.[↗](../../stepsister/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · My stepsister lives with us every other week.[↗](../../stepsister/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We have two stepsisters and one brother.[↗](../../stepsister/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · My stepsisters have sent me to you for a light."[↗](../../stepsister/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **stepson** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A stepson is a boy who is the child of your husband or wife from an earlier marriage, not your own child by birth.[↗](../../stepson/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The stepson hurried home.[↗](../../stepson/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He called his stepson to him.[↗](../../stepson/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My stepson plays football on Saturdays.[↗](../../stepson/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **stereotype** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* A stereotype is a fixed, too-simple idea about what all people of one group are like, for example that all girls like pink or all old people are slow.[↗](../../stereotype/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To stereotype people is to judge them by such an idea instead of as the person they really are.[↗](../../stereotype/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* A stereotype is a character in a story who is not real or deep but is made from such a simple idea.[↗](../../stereotype/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* As an adjective, stereotype can mean fixed and unoriginal, like a joke or remark that is said over and over.[↗](../../stereotype/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* It is a stereotype that boys don't cry.[↗](../../stereotype/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The advert used the old stereotype of the grumpy teenager.[↗](../../stereotype/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't stereotype people because of where they come from.[↗](../../stereotype/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She broke the stereotype by becoming the first female captain of the team.[↗](../../stereotype/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In our book, the witch is a stereotype: ugly, cruel and cackling.[↗](../../stereotype/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Stereotypes can make people feel left out.[↗](../../stereotype/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He was stereotyped as lazy, but he worked harder than anyone.[↗](../../stereotype/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Ha! ha! ha!” screamed Polly, and added his stereotype witticism.[↗](../../stereotype/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") “Come, let us be men!”[↗](../../stereotype/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **sterile** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Sterile means completely clean and free from germs (bacteria and viruses): sterile bandages, a sterile operating room.[↗](../../sterile/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Sterile means unable to have babies or young, or (of plants) unable to make seeds or fruit.[↗](../../sterile/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Sterile land cannot grow crops.[↗](../../sterile/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Sterile also means dull, lifeless, without ideas or warmth: a sterile argument, a sterile room.[↗](../../sterile/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Doctors use sterile gloves during operations.[↗](../../sterile/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The nurse opened a sterile bandage.[↗](../../sterile/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Boiling water can make baby bottles sterile.[↗](../../sterile/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · A mule is usually sterile, so it cannot have foals.[↗](../../sterile/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The desert soil was sterile and nothing grew.[↗](../../sterile/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The new office felt sterile, with white walls and no plants.[↗](../../sterile/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · In the lab, keep the dish sterile so no germs grow.[↗](../../sterile/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/S/) … 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