step up

1. (idiomatic, transitive)To increase, augment, or advance, especially by one or more steps.

   Near-synonym: level up

   They will need to step up production if they are going to compete.

   нараститьnarastitʹ, поднажатьpodnažatʹ

   increase in extent or intensity

2. (idiomatic, intransitive)To assume or take responsibility.

   Won't anyone step up to the challenge?

   вызватьсяvyzvatʹsja, взятьсяvzjatʹsja

1. We need to step up our game.

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2. Tom needs to step up his game.

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3. Tom stepped up to the microphone.

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4. Tom stepped up to the podium.

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5. Security at the airport has been stepped up since the bomb scare.

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• step upпропонувати, офіруватиTo increase, augment, or advance, especially by one or more steps.
• step outвийти, виходитиTo exit a place on foot, often for a short time.
• step onнаступати, наступитиTo adulterate (a drug) for the purpose of increasing its bulk, and therefore the profit when sold; to dilute, cut.
• step inзамінятиTo act as a replacement or substitute.
• step downйти, пітиUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, down.
• step offTo measure by steps or paces; hence, to divide (a space), or to form a series of marks, by successive measurements, as with dividers.
• step backUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step, back.
• step overTo relocate oneself to a position of a few steps away; step aside.