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step up
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v. increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing" [syn: escalate , intensify ] [ant: de-escalate ] speed up; "let's rev up production" [syn: rev up ] make oneself visible; take action; "Young people should step to the fore and help ...
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Etymology 1 vb. (context transitive idiomatic English) To increase speed or rate. Etymology 2 vb. (context intransitive idiomatic English) To assume responsibility; to volunteer or offer.
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" Step Up " is the third single released by Swedish singer Darin . The song is taken from his second album, Darin . The song co-written by Darin with RedOne and Bilal Hajji enjoyed much success in Sweden where it charted for 26 weeks, debuting at number ...
Usage examples of step up.
Inventing this form of agriculture, or husbandry, or industry, allowed for a tremendous population explosion, as the little red people had just taken a step up the food chain, by exploiting the level of life just below theirs.
Turka saw one whose face said he was a Lord, as plainly as if it had been embossed on his cap, step up and make ready to be the first through.
And our friend will not agree with me that we'll have to step up the strength of our output if we're ever going to punch through all that pressurized gunk out there.
With the threat gone, the reaction was uniform: we must step up the attack.
Carl Austin Weiss detach himself from the crowd, step up to the Senator, and push a .
Every moment of music making brings delight on its own, not just as a step up the mountain toward the highest peak.
The curve of the top of the thing was a little above my eye level, but there was a platform there for me to step up on.
The first step up from brutish manipulation of mechanical artifacts, the beginnings of control of chemical and biological processes.
In the meantime, here in Constantinople, we'll step up our efforts to turn his wife Antonina.
In fact, adolescent might be a better word than adult-it was at least a step up from childish.