steam
/stiːm/ verb C2- To cook with steam. · The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them.
- To be cooked with steam. · The artichokes are steaming in the pot.· I'm steaming in this coat.
- To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing. · to steam wood or cloth
- To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
- To produce or vent steam.
- To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour. · Our breath steamed in the cold winter air.
- To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.
- To make angry. · It really steams me to see her treat him like that.
He/she/it steams · Past steamed · Past participle steamed · -ing form steaming
Verb forms
- Base form
- steam
- He/she/it
- steams
- Past
- steamed
- Past participle
- steamed
- -ing form
- steaming
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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And Peppino placed his pan on the ground, so that the steam rose directly under the nostrils of Danglars.
If it’s your liver, there’s the _Rambler_ down in the bay, coaled, and ready to steam down to the Bahamas in two days.”
The poor little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it.
Then suddenly another sound became audible—a very gentle, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping continually from a kettle.
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