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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