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step
Synonyms and Antonyms of step
- took steps to ensure that there would be no more incidences of food poisoning
act, action, deed, doing, feat, thing
course, procedure, proceeding, process
activity, affair, business, dealing, enterprise, event
attempt, crack, endeavor, essay, fling, go, initiative, operation, pass, shot, stab, trial, try, undertaking, whack
effort, exertion, labor, pains, trouble, while, work
project, proposal, proposition
- The manual enumerates every step in the procedure for shutting down the assembly line.
- He lives just a step away from his elderly mother, so he's there if she needs him for any reason.
ace, hair, hairbreadth (or hairsbreadth), hairline, inch, neck, shouting distance, stone's throw
step
Synonyms and Antonyms of step
- I stepped across the street for a quick lunch at the new diner.
- She was in her element, happily stepping around the dance floor.
shake a leg, trip the light fantastic
- Many people wanted to linger before the president's bier, but guards kept the line of mourners stepping forward.
barrel, belt, blast, blaze, blow, bolt, bowl, breeze, bundle, bustle, buzz, cannonball, careen, career, chase, course, dash, drive, fly, hare, hasten, hie, highball, hotfoot (it), hump, hurl, hurry, hurtle, hustle, jet, jump, motor, nip, pelt, race, ram, rip, rocket, run, rush, rustle, scoot, scurry, scuttle, shoot, speed, tear, travel, trot, whirl, whisk, zip, zoom
beat it, get a move on, make tracks, shake a leg, step on it
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