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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(31) House Democrats called a series of news conferences calling on Gingrich to step down as speaker.
(32) However, I do not want to offend my local church organist by asking her to step down.
(33) As much as it pains us to write this, now is time for Dan to step down.
(34) Another step down, and the water was slopping round his ankles.
(35) If the panel brings formal charges, Gingrich may be forced to step down as speaker.
(36) For their part, opposition leaders demanded that Mr Fujimori step down immediately in favour of a transition government.
(37) An air force jet buzzed the compound to encourage him to step down.
(38) Lenovo: Securities Daily say Chairman Yang may step down.
(39) The revolutionary force forced the emperor to step down.
(40) Hitler could not step down.
(41) Noah Townsend did step down as chief of medicine.
(42) He is not ready to step down yet.
(43) I'm not ready to step down yet.
(44) Pressure mounts on Japan PM Mori to step down.
(45) Liberian President to Step Down by August 11.
(46) Will you step down and bend over the basin?
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(47) About 20,000 demonstrators gathered in the Albanian capital Tirana, government departments, the requirements of the conservative government to step down.
(48) In a couple of year that high school principal will step down, and her job will be taken by the vice-principal.
(49) If Mr. Yang is interested in taking ownership of the company, Third Point said on Friday, he should recuse himself from sale discussions at the board and step down as a director.
(50) Indeed, taking a step down in pay is so common that the best question is no longer "when is it okay to take a salary cut?"
(51) The reactionaries will never, of their own accord , step down from the stage of history.
(52) Step down type passive avoidance test is used to determine the effects of EPN on learning and memory dysfunction induced by scopolamine.
(53) Method Step down test and animal models of dysmnesia induced by scopolamine and NaNO 2 were used.
(54) All colors, all of downtown, all the best, in the dark lantern, the actor with the call to step down at the moment.
(55) His forceful argument soon made the opposing speaker step down.
(56) This is especially true to take the pressure off of your knees if you pronate, e. g. , ride the inside edge of your foot when you step down.
(57) Rolf Breuer will step down before the end of the year, after bringing in four new non-executives to "better reflect the current shareholder structure of the company".
(58) Richardson also called on President Bush to force Pakistan i President Pervez Musharraf to step down.
(59) Once the customer loads are determined , they are grouped for service from secondary lines connected to distri2 bution transformers that step down from primary voltage .
(60) HP synchronous machine ones step down start equipment designed by ourselves is introduced.
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.