Definition of "stepped" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of step. (verb)
• Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs. (adjective)

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• "But the next day when Banty drove down to Kamloops to meet the train, and his cousin stepped from the sleeper on to the station platform, things looked worse than threatened misery."
• "She condemned what she called stepped up "systematic repression" by Iran's government of the opposition."
• "Reestablishing electrical power in many communities has to be done in what we call a stepped process."