To initiate a course of action, often against something that one disapproves of.

(transitive, idiomatic) To increase, augment, or advance, especially by one or more steps.

(intransitive, idiomatic) To assume or take responsibility.

(idiomatic) To resign from office; to abdicate. / To gradually reduce something, a little at a time, as an electronic step down transformer.

To walk up a set of stairs as exercise.

(computing, mathematics) A flash of insight that cracks a problem and paves the way to a solution.

plural of goose-step

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of goose-step

An open space in an otherwise solid object through which a person can step or walk.

plural of Eureka step