To step in ∨ into Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. . (a) To walk or advance into a place or state, or to advance suddenly in.
    Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. John v. 4.
    (b) To enter for a short time; as, I just stepped into the house. (c) To obtain possession without trouble; to enter upon easily or suddenly; as, to step into an estate .

Webster 1913