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Verb [English]

Audio: En-au-step down.ogg Forms: steps down [present, singular, third-person], stepping down [participle, present], stepped down [participle, past], stepped down [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} step down (third-person singular simple present steps down, present participle stepping down, simple past and past participle stepped down)
  1. (idiomatic) To resign from office; to abdicate. Tags: idiomatic Translations (to resign from office): 卸任 (xièrèn) (Chinese), træde tilbage (Danish), aftreden (Dutch), een stap opzij zetten (Dutch), démissionner (French), se retirer (French), dimitir (Galician), cesar (Galician), zurücktreten (German), ritirarsi (Italian), dimettersi (Italian), fratre (Norwegian Bokmål), ustępować [imperfective] (Polish), ustąpić [perfective] (Polish), abdica (Romanian), уйти́ с поста́ (ujtí s postá) (Russian), уво́литься (uvólitʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), увольня́ться (uvolʹnjátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), dimitir (Spanish), renunciar (Spanish)
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  2. To gradually reduce something. Translations (to gradually reduce something): nedtrappe (Danish), reducir (Galician), herunterstufen (German), degradieren (German), erniedrigen (German), deklassieren (German), herabstufen (German), íoschéimnigh (Irish), scemare (Italian), diminuire (Italian), уменьша́ть (umenʹšátʹ) (Russian), понижа́ть (ponižátʹ) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-step_down-en-verb-pYxx0DJc Disambiguation of 'to gradually reduce something': 1 99
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: step over

Inflected forms

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    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to gradually reduce something",
      "word": "íoschéimnigh"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to gradually reduce something",
      "word": "scemare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to gradually reduce something",
      "word": "diminuire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "umenʹšátʹ",
      "sense": "to gradually reduce something",
      "word": "уменьша́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ponižátʹ",
      "sense": "to gradually reduce something",
      "word": "понижа́ть"
    }
  ],
  "word": "step down"
}

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