as in boiled
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger
the newspaper's blatantly biased coverage made a lot of readers steam
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Recent Examples of steamed
In the spring, the leaves are harvested, steamed, de-stemmed and de-veined and then stone ground into a fine powder.
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
And last Friday, US and British warships steamed through the Taiwan Strait.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
The one-Michelin-star kitchen highlights Cantonese dishes, from Xing grouper steamed in lotus leaves to a too-pretty-to-eat tofu chrysanthemum flower.
—AFAR Media, 2 Sep. 2025
They’re wrapped in banana leaves instead of corn husks, are flatter and more rectangular in shape, and are about three times the size of the kind traditionally steamed in corn husks (perfect for sharing).
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
And last Friday, US and British warships steamed through the Taiwan Strait.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
The one-Michelin-star kitchen highlights Cantonese dishes, from Xing grouper steamed in lotus leaves to a too-pretty-to-eat tofu chrysanthemum flower.
—AFAR Media, 2 Sep. 2025
They’re wrapped in banana leaves instead of corn husks, are flatter and more rectangular in shape, and are about three times the size of the kind traditionally steamed in corn husks (perfect for sharing).
—Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 24 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamed
Verb
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The juice is extracted, boiled, cleaned of impurities, and crystallized.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
2 Oct. 2025
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The recipe calls for the watery stalks to be boiled in meat broth and served chilled, accompanied with ketchup and anchovies.—
John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Junior tight end Bennett Jordan outjumped two defenders, somehow caught it, and the Mountain Brook team stormed the end zone.—
Grace Raynor,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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The Tigers-Guardians series brings plenty of storylines after Cleveland stormed back to take the division.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Total terror raged for a month or more.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
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The Barbz quickly worked to shut that notion down, but the debate raged on between the two fanbases.—
Regina Cho,
VIBE.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Steamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamed. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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