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单词 step sth up
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step sth up

phrasal verb with step uk/step/us/step/verb [ I + adv/prep ] -pp-

to increase the size, amount, or speed of a process that is intended to achieve something:

The police are stepping up their efforts to fight crime.
Security has been stepped up at the airport.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Increasing and intensifying

  • -ify
  • a snowball effect idiom
  • accretion
  • accumulate
  • accumulative
  • add fuel to the fire idiom
  • balloon
  • bump
  • dial
  • growing
  • heighten
  • hot up
  • increase
  • pile
  • rack
  • scale sth up
  • speed-up
  • spurt
  • step
  • supersize

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step sth up

phrasal verb with step uk/step/usverb [ I ]

to increase the size, amount, or speed of a process in order to achieve something:

We need to step up production in order to meet our deadline.
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