1. stepped - Adjective
2. stepped - Verb
Derived from step
of Step
Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe 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. Willa Cather
...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... Jackie Kay
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times. Rita Rudner
'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. Arthur C. Clarke
If a blind man says lets throw stones, be assured that he has stepped on one. Nigerian Proverb
If you make yourself a doormat, you will be stepped on. American Proverb