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- the manual enumerates every step in the procedure for shutting down the assembly line
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- their steps led them through a long corridor
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- he lives just a step away from his elderly mother, so he's there if she needs him for any reason
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of step (Entry 2 of 2)
- I stepped across the street for a quick lunch at the new diner
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- she was in her element, happily stepping around the dance floor
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- many people wanted to linger before the president's bier, but guards kept the line of mourners stepping forward
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- barrel,
- belt,
- blast,
- blaze,
- blow,
- bolt,
- bomb
- [slang],
- bowl,
- breeze,
- bundle,
- bustle,
- buzz,
- cannonball,
- careen,
- career,
- chase,
- course,
- crack (on),
- 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
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“Step.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/step. Accessed 21 Feb. 2020.
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