stept

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛpt

Verb

stept

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of step
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     So Dangerfield's little dyspepsy had like to have cured one or other of the village leeches, for ever and a day, of the heart-ache and all other aches that flesh is heir to. For Dangerfield commenced with Toole: and that physician, on the third day of his instalment, found that Sturk had stept in and taken his patient bodily out of his hands.

Anagrams

• Petts