step up's Usage Examples:

Even as the station tried to significantly step up fundraising, its treatment as another academic department, requiring a different style of management, often hurt WHMM-TV.

The team reached the 2015 Football League Cup Final in Pochettino's first season in charge which also saw a number of the club's academy players step up to establish themselves in the first team, including Harry Kane, Danny Rose, Ryan Mason, Nabil Bentaleb and Andros Townsend.

Of note is the fact that NBC began to step up efforts to expand the network; while it had 33 stations in 1937, this total had nearly tripled by January 1941, when the network had 92 stations coast to coast.

He was determined to step up as a provider for his found family and got a job.

He made the step up to the first team in his teenage years, and is also a regular in the Turkish under-21 team.

cinematic elements here and there, the perfection in the script and the flawlessness in the execution allows the movie to take a step up".

He made the step up to the main squad in 2001.

The platform is much lower than usual in the United Kingdom which leads to a significant step up into the trains.

According to the folklore of the borders it was considered unlucky to step upon unchristened ground (the graves of stillborn or unbaptised children) and any who did were said to catch grave-merels (or grave-scab) an illness that causes difficulty of breathing and trembling limbs as well as the burning of the skin as if touched by a hot iron.

15N increases about 3-4% with each trophic step upward.

Related FormulaFormula Ford has given birth to several other categories of racing: Formula Ford 2000 evolved in the 1970s to use a Pinto engine and, although it used basically Formula Ford chassis, permitted use of slicks and wings; it was seen as a natural step up from the 1600cc formula and a stepping stone to categories such as Formula Three.

In fact, many Silverface designs were revised to the ultra-linear architecture to step up their output power from 100 watts to 135 watts.

one step up from entry level certification as a beginner autonomous scuba diver.

Synonyms:

escalate, redouble, increase, intensify,

Antonyms:

decrease, de-escalate, rise, recede, ascend,