step up

VERB
  1. speed up
    let's rev up production
  2. make oneself visible; take action
    Young people should step to the fore and help their peers
  3. increase in extent or intensity
    The Allies escalated the bombing
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How To Use step up In A Sentence

  • Gervinho might prove to be another classic Arsène Wenger bargain, an athletic and pacy ball player raring to step up a level, spirited over from France for a fee that doesn't make a certain manager with a well-documented devotion to cautious housekeeping choke as if he was asked to fix the Greek economy before breakfast. Premier League preview No1: Arsenal | Amy Lawrence
  • At a minimum, the Bush administration had better step up its promotion of the economy's current sizzling performance.
  • Would you like to step up to the third floor?
  • If you've got one of its skunky previous DVD editions, it's time to turn that turkey into a Christmas tree ornament and take a step up in quality.
  • You need to step up the pace of your exercises.
  • It is time to bid thee farewell, and let someone half thy hoary age step up and take thy place.
  • The company has defocused on its planned release of its third generation platform because it says operators are more keen to avoid a two-step upgrade.
  • For keys with sharps, look at the last sharp in the series of sharps, and say the catch phrase ‘little step up, big step down.’
  • In addition to the line, the secondary is a question mark for the Terrapins, who will be looking for Kenny Tate and Antwine Perez to step up their game now that they are the projected starters at safety, while redshirt freshman Dexter McDougle could find himself starting at corner. Around the Atlantic Coast Conference
  • Campaigners will step up their fight to dual the A120 after reflecting on alarming new figures.
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