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1. Give up or retire from a position
   "The Secretary of the Navy will step down next month";
   - leave office, quit, resign
    
2. Reduce the level, intensity, size or scope of
   "step down a crisis";
   - de-escalate, weaken

1. The act of decreasing or reducing something
   - decrease, diminution, reduction

Derived forms: step-downs, stepping down, stepped down, steps down

Type of: change of magnitude, decrease, depart, leave, lessen, minify, pull up stakes