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stepping down (from)verbpresent participle of step down (from) to give up (a job or office)with the advent of his 90th birthday, he could no longer resist calls for him to step down from chairmanship of the board bagging, chucking, leaving, quitting, resigning (from), retiring (from), stepping aside (from) abandoning, vacatingdropping out (of), throwing up giving notice staying (at) hiring (out or on) to give up (as a position of authority) formallyeven in the face of a palace revolt, Queen Elizabeth I refused to step down from the throne abdicating, abnegating, ceding, relinquishing, renouncing, resigning, stepping aside (from), surrendering abjuring, demitting, denying, disavowing, disclaiming, disowning, waivingforsaking, giving up, handing over, yieldingabandoning, deserting, quitting, vacating appropriating, arrogating, assuming, claiming, confiscatingseizing, taking over, usurping, wrestingdefending, guarding, protecting, safeguarding, securing |