English Dictionary

steam

/stiːm/

verb

(cooking, transitive) To cook with steam. / (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing. / (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.

I love to steam vegetables for a healthy meal.

意味（1）

(cooking, transitive) To cook with steam.

The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them.

意味（2）

(transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.

to steam wood or cloth

意味（3）

(intransitive) To produce or vent steam.

See, ſee, my Brother's Ghoſt hangs hovering there, / O're his warm Blood, that ſteems into the Air, / Revenge, Revenge it cries.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.

Our breath steamed in the cold winter air.

意味（5）

(intransitive, figuratively) To become angry; to fume; to be incensed.

意味（6）

(transitive, figuratively) To make angry.

It really steams me to see her treat him like that.

意味（7）

(intransitive) To be covered with condensed water vapor.

With all the heavy breathing going on the windows were quickly steamed in the car.

意味（8）

(intransitive) To travel by means of steam power.

We steamed around the Mediterranean.

意味（9）

(figuratively or literally) To move with great or excessive purposefulness.

If he heard of anyone picking the fruit he would steam off and lecture them.

意味（10）

(obsolete) To exhale.

like inward fire that outward smoke had steemd