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step-by-stepadjective proceeding or changing by steps or degreesthe incessant step-by-step advance of the enemy's troops could no longer be resisted gradational, gradual, incremental, phased, piecemeal progressive, stepped, taperedimperceptible, inchingdecrescent, increscent abrupt, sudden discontinuous, saltatoryacute, sharpchangeable, dynamic, meteoric, volatile in 1581 |