Answer to "Put one's foot down" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word STEP , but the solution may also be STOMP which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in LA Times).

Put one's foot down crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer Likelyness Letters
STEP42 %4
TROD29 %4
STOMP11 %5
STAMP4 %5
INSIST4 %6
STOMPED2 %7
SPED2 %4
STEP Down 1 “Adiós”1 %24
STEPPED1 %7
REV1 %3
SAYNO1 %5
BRAKED1 %6

Why may TROD be the right solution?

"TROD" is the past tense of "tread", which means to step or walk on something. "Put one's foot down" is an idiom that means to assert oneself or take a firm stand, which can be done by literally treading down on the ground.

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Put one's foot down

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.
  • assert
  • insist
  • maintain
  • stress
  • insistent
  • peg
  • fastness
  • pull through
  • economy
  • take
  • push through
  • rise above

Crossword Answer definitions

STEP noun
  1. An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
  2. A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
  3. A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
  4. A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
  5. The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
  6. A small space or distance.
  7. A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
  8. A gait; manner of walking.
  9. Proceeding; measure; action; act.
  10. (plural) A walk; passage.
  11. (plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
  12. A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
  13. (machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
  14. (machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
  15. The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
  16. (kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
  17. A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
  18. A stepsibling.
STEP verb
  1. To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
  2. To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
  3. To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
  4. To move mentally; to go in imagination.
  5. To set, as the foot.
  6. To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.

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