step on

1. 1.

   place or press the foot on

   “He stepped on the hem of her long gown”

   Synonymstread on

   Broaderstep

Questions about step on

What does step on mean?

step on means "place or press the foot on".

What is another word for step on?

Close synonyms include tread on. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is step on a common word?

step on is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.