Synonym: de-escalate, leave office, quit, resign, weaken. Similar words: keep down, step by step, drop down, clampdown, step, steps, step up, in step. Meaning: [step‚daʊn] 
v. 1. give up or retire from a position 2. reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of step-down. n. the act of decreasing or reducing something.
v. 1. give up or retire from a position 2. reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of step-down. n. the act of decreasing or reducing something. 
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(1) He has decided to step down as captain of the team.
(2) She reluctantly agreed to step down as managing director.
(3) He saw the job as a step down .
(4) He was forced to step down from his post.
(5) I would step down if the people wanted.
(6) She was made to step down by my forceful argument.
(7) The president need not step down so long as the elections are held under international supervision.
(8) The manager had to step down on account of poor health.
(9) He was forced to step down in early April.
(10) He again volunteered to step down.
(11) He will step down before the election, a decision he announced on a chat show.
(12) Kelly was due to step down after covering for the suspended Tracey against Arsenal last week.
(13) Mr Orlando was forced to step down as mayor despite his popularity with the voters.
(14) John's appeal enabled Khrushchev to step down without losing face.
(15) Critics called it one step down the path toward legalization of drugs.
(16) Occasionally he would step down the wicket and slog my straight medium pacer straight and high over my head.
(17) He was due to step down as Oceania president in 2002.
(18) Step down, expose for 1 second[Sentencedict.com], repeat 15 or so times.
(19) Step down and make a delicate traverse left to move up into a recess and small ledge.
(20) Wegener said Chairman Peter Appeldoorn will step down at the annual shareholder meeting May 2.
(21) A month later, he was forced to step down as dean of the dental department at the college.
(22) Judge Ito said that if his wife was called as a witness, he would step down as trial judge.
(23) He has decided that he doesn't want to embarrass the movement and will therefore step down.
(24) Shareholders subsequently asked the board to reconsider its decisions or step down.
(25) But Hasler, dean of the Haas school since 1991, agreed to step down from his post June 30, 1998.
(26) It was widely believed that had Mr Dempsey not announced his resignation he would have been forced to step down.
(27) But later he told a Melbourne radio station that he would demand an explanation if he were asked to step down.
(28) Though Republicans called for the president to fire him, Brown refused to step down.
(29) When the pyramids began to collapse, crowds rioted throughout the small country and opposition activists demanded that the government step down.
(30) Gen Wiranto called a news conference in Jakarta to say that he would not step down until his position had been clarified.
More similar words: keep down, step by step, drop down, clampdown, step, steps, step up, in step, steppe, step out, step in, stepped, stepmother, take steps, tepid, date palm, private property, down, downs, go down, dowry, widow, get down, shadow, let down, endow, dowdy, put-down, come down, hand down.