Thesaurus results for STEAMS

steams 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of steam

as in rages

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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steams

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noun

plural of steam

as in clouds

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Recent Examples of steams

Verb

Lucien Laviscount enters the scene and steams it up as Hot Guy who fandangoes with Laila and then upends the apple cart later on. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 9 July 2026 During that time, the steak essentially steams. — Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 15 May 2026 This all comes as the legal fight over the audit steams ahead, over 15 months after 72% of the state signed off on the ballot measure. — Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026 Mile End's Bohème Vintage stocks quality wool and denim, and steams them right behind the counter. — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2026 Nothing steams football fans quite like NBC Sports broadcaster Cris Collinsworth praising Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2026 Then, Lim steams the breastmilk in an espresso machine before adding the matcha into the drink. — Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026 Humidity often corrodes cables and steams camera lenses. — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Nov. 2025 The clip then smash-cuts to a scene of Bruce as a child listening to his parents fight in the next room, and we’re meant to understand that the joy and power that steams off of the stage is a cure for the pain of childhood wounds. — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for steams

Verb

But the film’s depiction of a millennia-old mythology isn’t meant to be historically accurate—though the accuracy debate rages on.

— Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 July 2026
The findings come as the debate surrounding the I-77 South tolls project rages on.

— DJ Simmons, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026

Definition of rages

Noun

El Niño events are a climate cycle characterized by hotter than average ocean temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific, which transfer huge amounts of heat to the atmosphere via clouds and heavy precipitation.

— Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
The distant thunder was still faint, but its deep rumble drowned out the manic noise next door, like a great invisible hand reaching out beyond the clouds to crush the multifarious towns below.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of clouds

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Mariscos Cortez is a seafood restaurant with flavors from the coast of Mexico that will serve a small menu of ceviche, aguachiles and Jalisco-style shrimp boils.

— Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2026
The river dropped 60 feet between boulders in a series of falls and continued downstream in a dangerous half mile of holes and boils.

— John Todd, Outdoor Life, 9 July 2026

Definition of boils

Verb

That burns tokens, slows response times and increases the chances that the model will miss or misread something important.

— Bruce Kelley, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
Spain this year has already suffered 22 major forest fires, which is defined as a fire that burns over 500 hectares (1,235 acres).

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 July 2026

Definition of burns

Verb

Mars storms the Official Streaming chart with five titles, while one of his most successful collaborations becomes a bestseller again on multiple rosters.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
Although significant, that event was far less powerful than the Carrington Event — or the even rarer storms the new study suggests may be possible.

— Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of storms

Verb

As Seth seethes about his separation from his home country (and the family fortune), Arias interweaves a backstory involving assassination, undisclosed parentage and (as the title suggests) the perilous creatures slithering across the landscape.

— Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
Trump seethes with hatred and erupts in volcanic fury to denounce, demonize, disparage and threaten anyone who refuses to support his increasingly irrational and harmful proposals and actions.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2026

Definition of seethes

Verb

Shedeur Sanders of the Cleveland Browns shakes hands with his father Deion Sanders of the Colorado Buffaloes after the Cleveland Browns Training Camp at CrossCountry Mortgage Campus on July 30, 2026 in Berea, Ohio.

— Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 31 July 2026
The other is praying an elite center from another team shakes free.

— Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 21 July 2026