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steam

/stiːm/ verbe C2

En français : cuisiner à la vapeur

  1. To cook with steam. (transitive) · The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them.
  2. To be cooked with steam. (figuratively, intransitive) · The artichokes are steaming in the pot.· I'm steaming in this coat.
  3. To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing. (transitive) · to steam wood or cloth
  4. To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive. (transitive)
  5. To produce or vent steam. (intransitive)
  6. To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour. (intransitive) · Our breath steamed in the cold winter air.
  7. To become angry; to fume; to be incensed. (figuratively, intransitive)
  8. To make angry. (figuratively, transitive) · It really steams me to see her treat him like that.

He/she/it steams · Prétérit steamed · Participe passé steamed · Forme en -ing steaming

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Formes du verbe

Forme de base
steam
He/she/it
steams
Prétérit
steamed
Participe passé
steamed
Forme en -ing
steaming

Dans la bibliothèque

And Peppino placed his pan on the ground, so that the steam rose directly under the nostrils of Danglars.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1078 · C1
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.”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 10 · C1
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.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 44 · B2
Then suddenly another sound became audible—a very gentle, soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping continually from a kettle.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 65 · B2

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