step up

Questions about step up

What does step up mean?

step up means "increase in extent or intensity". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for step up?

Close synonyms include escalate, intensify, rev up, come to the fore, step forward. 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 up a common word?

step up is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.