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step
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of STEP
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an action planned or taken to achieve a desired result <took steps to ensure that there would be no more incidences of food poisoning>
Related Words act, action, deed, doing, feat, thing; course, procedure, proceeding, process; accomplishment, achievement, attainment, coup, exploit, success, triumph; activity, affair, business, dealing, enterprise, event; attempt, crack, endeavor, essay, fling, go, initiative, operation, pass, shot, stab, trial, try, undertaking, whack; effort, exertion, labor, pains, trouble, while, work; project, proposal, proposition; makeshift, resort, resource, stopgap; countermeasure, countermove, counterstep
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an individual part of a process, series, or ranking <the manual enumerates every step in the procedure for shutting down the assembly line>
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a very small distance or degree <he lives just a step away from his elderly mother, so he's there if she needs him for any reason>
Synonyms ace, hairbreadth (or hairsbreadth), hairline, hop, skip, and jump, inch, neck, shouting distance, step, stone's throw
Related Words bit, crumb, dab, iota, jot, minim, mite, particle, smidgen (also smidgeon or smidgin or smidge), trace, trifle
Near Antonyms infinity, light-year
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