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step forward

step forward verb: to take one or more steps forward, especially in response to a request for identification.

Verb

step forward (third-person singular simple present steps forward, present participle stepping forward, simple past and past participle stepped forward)

  1. (intransitive) to take one or more steps forward, especially in response to a request for identification
    • Private Johnson, step forward!
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) to volunteer for something; to offer one's services
    • Ambassador Udina: The other species are scared. They've never faced anything like this before and they don't know what to do. They want us to step forward. They believe in humanity because of you.
      Ambassador Udina: Your ruthless pursuit of Saren and the geth, your defiance of the Council -- that's...2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel
  3. (idiomatic, intransitive) to admit one's wrongdoing, to own up

step forward meaning in Kannada

step forward in Kannada

ಹಜ್ಜೆಗೊಳಿಸು

Forms of step forward

third-person singular presentsteps forward
present participlestepping forward
past participlestepped forward
paststepped forward

Questions about step forward

What does step forward mean?
Step forward means to take one or more steps forward, especially in response to a request for identification.
What is step forward in Kannada?
Step forward in Kannada is ಹಜ್ಜೆಗೊಳಿಸು. See Step forward meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is step forward?
Step forward is a verb.
What is the past tense of step forward?
The past tense of step forward is stepped forward.

Words near step forward in the dictionary

  1. step families
  2. step family
  3. step flashing
  4. step flashings
  5. step foot
  6. step forward
  7. step function
  8. step functions
  9. step grate
  10. step grates
  11. step in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: step forward (page history and authors); step forward (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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