Thesaurus results for STEAMS

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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

All eyes on jewelry As the jewelry supercycle rages on, the category is increasingly showing up during Couture Week.

— Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 10 July 2026
Molloy rages to his film crew, and Lestat’s duplicity plants a wedge between the vamps.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 23 June 2026

Definition of rages

Noun

Billie’s obsession with taking down Priscilla constantly puts her team in peril, because being so laser-focused on one thing clouds the bigger picture.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 July 2026
Beehive is more delicate, sending up painterly tendrils that form a thin scrim in front of the landscape of volcanic sediment, evergreens, and puffy cumulus clouds.

— Jesse Ashlock, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 July 2026

Definition of clouds

Verb

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
Also contaminated are fish, staples of Midwestern fish fries and fish boils, and an important part of the diet of Indigenous tribes, certain immigrant populations and communities of color.

— Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 21 June 2026

Definition of boils

Verb

The vehicle's first stage burns kerosene and liquid oxygen (LOX) propellants, whereas the second stage uses LOX and liquid methane.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 10 July 2026
But that is labor intensive, and when a fire burns thousands of acres, the time and cost involved can be too high.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Definition of burns

Verb

Sharon Stone storms the runway at the Vetements Spring Summer 2027 fashion show during Paris Men's Fashion Week on June 26.

— Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
In a flashback to the Italian inn, Lestat storms in on Gabriella sleeping with a rando, having heard her through the walls.

— Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 29 June 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

That is where high-protein snacks like cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, jerky, nuts and shakes come in.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson July 8, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 July 2026
Rescuers were able to insert tubes to provide water, hydration fluids, protein shakes and medicine to Gil.

— Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026