verb
- Travel by means of steam power.
- usage: "The ship steamed off into the Pacific"
- Emit steam.
- usage: "The rain forest was literally steaming"
- synonyms: steam
- Rise as vapor.
- synonyms: steam
- Get very angry.
- usage: "her indifference to his amorous advances really steamed the young man"
- synonyms: steam
- Clean by means of steaming.
- usage: "steam-clean the upholstered sofa"
- synonyms: steam, steam clean
- Cook something by letting steam pass over it.
- usage: "just steam the vegetables"
- synonyms: steam
adjective
- Cooked in steam.
- usage: "steamed clams"
- Aroused to impatience or anger.
- usage: "made an irritated gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay"
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