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
After proofing, they are broken into small servings, stuffed with pork and steamed.
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Amy Drew Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 May 2026
Meals, from breakfast to dinner, feature a rotation of Guatemalan dishes, including ceviche, avocado salad, local fish steamed in banana leaves and roast chicken.
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Lauren Mowery,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
The Peleliu, known as the Iron Nickel to sailors, steamed more than 1 million miles during more than 35 years of service.
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Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 May 2026
Denver steamed through an 11-game winning streak, won the AFC West by three games and claimed the conference’s top seed a year ago.
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Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
15 May 2026
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Amy Drew Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 May 2026
Meals, from breakfast to dinner, feature a rotation of Guatemalan dishes, including ceviche, avocado salad, local fish steamed in banana leaves and roast chicken.
—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2026
The Peleliu, known as the Iron Nickel to sailors, steamed more than 1 million miles during more than 35 years of service.
—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 May 2026
Denver steamed through an 11-game winning streak, won the AFC West by three games and claimed the conference’s top seed a year ago.
—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
15 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for steamed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamed
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Water does not need to be boiled for showering or bathing, provided that people don't drink water while doing so.
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While the properly prepared, boiled three times, tender spring leaves of this plant are the main ingredient in poke sallet, a fixture of Southern cuisine, the plant is truly toxic.
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The Cottonwood Fire had burned nearly 72,000 acres and is at 0% containment.
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Idling trucks, sandbag piles and large metal trailers stationed around a massive cold storage facility that burned for days in Boyle Heights signaled that the work to clean up millions of pounds of spoiled food and burned debris had begun Friday morning.
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Center talent and depth was undeniably one of the reasons Colorado stormed through the regular season as the league’s top team and breezed by Los Angeles and Minnesota in the first two rounds of the playoffs.
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Disgruntled, the policemen stormed out of the house.
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As the party raged on LACMA’s campus, hundreds of parade participants hurriedly prepared for their debuts in the corners of nearby streets and parking lots.
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By Hannah Miller, Bloomberg Before the World Cup started, fans raged over the cost of tickets — the highest ever for the tournament.
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The Timberwolves foamed at the mouth, eager to back up Jaden McDaniels’ trash talk about Denver’s defense from three days earlier.
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With her eyes closed and her palms turned upward, Scherzinger appeared to be in total peace as the ocean tide gently foamed around her feet.
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“Steamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamed. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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