stepped
Speech parts
1. stepped - Adjective
2. stepped - Verb
Derived from step
Meaning
of Step
Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key.
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Examples
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
...I like the idea that stories are active, that if you stepped on them they would become alive, like plants, and that the same memory can grow new shoots and flowers, and can change over the course of people's lives...
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from it forever by the moment when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out on to the Sea of Tranquility. Now history and fiction have become inexorably intertwined.
If a blind man says lets throw stones, be assured that he has stepped on one.
If you make yourself a doormat, you will be stepped on.