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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(61) Papandreou was reported to have later indicated he could step down even if he won today's knife-edge vote of confidence in parliament.
(62) This means that in emergency situations or sudden deceleration, the transmission can quickly step down to LOW gear .
(63) Methods step down test and step through test in mice were used.
(64) Flowing English speech should stand on awareness and building of coordinated legato enveloping stress timed rhythm and step down of pitches.
(65) Spang Power Electronics designs dry-type transformers in 5 and 15 kV classes to step down power from the distribution voltage to the utilization voltage in commercial or industrial applications.
(66) Japanese Premier Tojo step down after Chinese defeat Japanese 2nd wave attack at Hengy and 25000 Japanese killed.
(67) The reduction of people to material objects is merely another step down in the process of dehumanization.
(68) Later, "Artificial coloring " the truth by debunk, "Blue bewitching female singer " begin to step down spirit of evil of altar sweep off.
(69) The roofs step down and slant eastwardly, harmonious to the grand east square.
(70) Palin said she will formally step down July 26, and Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell will be inaugurated.
(71) Everyone thought the state's premier , Peter M ü ller,(sentencedict.com) would have to step down.
(72) The demonstrators want Mr Ghannouchi to step down, because he served as prime minister for many years during the rule of the ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
(73) At one demonstration, protesters opposed to the talks chanted for the Bahraini monarch to step down.
(74) If I were to be, I would step down and raise my voice immediately.
(75) Taylor is expected to step down Monday and hand over power to Vice President Moses Blah.
(76) Conclusion The key point of reducing the incidence of pernicious placenta praevia is to step down the rate of cesarean section.
(77) Getting into the aft cabin involves a slight step down from saloon level.
(78) After the scandal over misappropriated funds the chief accountant was asked to step down. Sentencedict.com
(79) Jendayi Frazer, U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, said Thursday that "there is a complete collapse right now" in Zimbabwe, and said that Mr. Mugabe needs to step down.
(80) By agreeing to eventually step down, Mr. Berlusconi is likely to become the highest-profile political victim of the euro-zone crisis that has been ravaging the Continent for the past two years.
(81) Obama, speaking on Fox television ahead of its broadcast of the Super Bowl, would not be drawn into predicting whether Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would step down.
(82) Clarence Crump and his interim committee, their task completed, wanted to step down.
(83) So far the primary prevention is still in an initial exploratory phase worldwide, it's generally agreed that to step down the prevalence of asthma should begin at birth and neonatal period.
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.