See also: <span class="searchmatch">step</span>-<span class="searchmatch">up</span> (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) <span class="searchmatch">step</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> (third-person singular...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">step</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> Deverbal from <span class="searchmatch">step</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span>. <span class="searchmatch">step</span>-<span class="searchmatch">up</span> (not comparable) That increases in stages. (Can we add an example for this sense?) (of a transformer etc)...
<span class="searchmatch">step</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> on (third-person singular simple present steps <span class="searchmatch">up</span> on, present participle <span class="searchmatch">stepping</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> on, simple past and past participle <span class="searchmatch">stepped</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> on) (African-American...
at bat in baseball. <span class="searchmatch">step</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> to the plate (third-person singular simple present steps <span class="searchmatch">up</span> to the plate, present participle <span class="searchmatch">stepping</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> to the plate, simple...
<span class="searchmatch">stepping</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">step</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">step</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> one's game (third-person singular simple present steps <span class="searchmatch">up</span> one's game, present participle <span class="searchmatch">stepping</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> one's game, simple past and past participle...
<span class="searchmatch">stepped</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> simple past and past participle of <span class="searchmatch">step</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span>...
From <span class="searchmatch">step</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span>. <span class="searchmatch">stepped</span>-<span class="searchmatch">up</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">stepped</span>-<span class="searchmatch">up</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">stepped</span>-<span class="searchmatch">up</span>) Increased; heightened. 2023 May 23, Lisa O'Carroll, “Austria tightens...
<span class="searchmatch">step</span>-ups plural of <span class="searchmatch">step</span>-<span class="searchmatch">up</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">stepping</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> to the plate present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">step</span> <span class="searchmatch">up</span> to the plate...