step down

Verb
  1. Give up or retire from a position (synset 202387509)
    "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"
    is a type of: depart, leave, pull up stakes - remove oneself from an association with or participation in
    subtypes:
    • give up, renounce, resign, vacate - leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily
    • retire - go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
    • top out - give up one's career just as one becomes very successful
    • fall - lose office or power
    same as: leave office, quit, resign
  2. Reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of (synset 200291502)
    "de-escalate a crisis"
    is a type of: decrease, lessen, minify - make smaller
    same as: de-escalate, weaken

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