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steam

5 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. steam (verb)
  2. steam up (verb)
  3. blow (verb)
  4. blow (verb)
  5. blow (verb)

steam

verb

Definition of STEAM

to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger <the newspaper's blatantly biased coverage made a lot of readers steam>
Related Words fulminate, rant, rave; smolder (or smoulder); bristle, flare (up), inflame (also enflame); chafe, fret, stew; agitate, convulse, roil, shake

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