verb
Meaning 1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, down.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- to step down carefully from a train
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
step down
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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verb
Meaning 2
To resign or retire from an office or position of authority.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: abdicate
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To reduce gradually or incrementally.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- de-escalate a crisis
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: de-escalate, weaken
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: decrease, lessen, minify
verb
Meaning 5
give up or retire from a position
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month
- The chairman resigned over the financial scandal
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: leave office, quit, resign
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: leave, depart, pull up stakes
Narrower terms: vacate, resign, renounce, give up, retire, top out, fall
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Spanish: bajar — (literal)
- Spanish: bajarse — (literal)
- Chinese: 卸任 (xièrèn) — to resign or retire from a position
- Danish: træde tilbage — to resign or retire from a position
- Dutch: aftreden — to resign or retire from a position
- Dutch: een stap opzij zetten — to resign or retire from a position
- French: démissionner — to resign or retire from a position
- French: se retirer — to resign or retire from a position
- Galician: dimitir — to resign or retire from a position
- Galician: cesar — to resign or retire from a position
- German: zurücktreten — to resign or retire from a position
- Italian: ritirarsi — to resign or retire from a position
- Italian: dimettersi — to resign or retire from a position
- Norwegian Bokmål: fratre — to resign or retire from a position
- Polish: ustępować — to resign or retire from a position
- Polish: ustąpić — to resign or retire from a position
- Romanian: abdica — to resign or retire from a position
- Russian: уйти́ с поста́ (ujtí s postá) — to resign or retire from a position
- Russian: уво́литься (uvólitʹsja) — to resign or retire from a position
- Russian: увольня́ться (uvolʹnjátʹsja) — to resign or retire from a position
- Spanish: dimitir — to resign or retire from a position
- Spanish: renunciar — to resign or retire from a position
- Asturian: reducir — to reduce gradually
- Danish: nedtrappe — to reduce gradually
- Galician: reducir — to reduce gradually
- German: herunterstufen — to reduce gradually
- German: degradieren — to reduce gradually
- German: erniedrigen — to reduce gradually
- German: deklassieren — to reduce gradually
- German: herabstufen — to reduce gradually
- Irish: íoschéimnigh — to reduce gradually
- Italian: scemare — to reduce gradually
- Italian: diminuire — to reduce gradually
- Russian: уменьша́ть (umenʹšátʹ) — to reduce gradually
- Russian: понижа́ть (ponižátʹ) — to reduce gradually