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verb

Steam v. t.

To exhale. (Obs.)

To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.

Steam v. i. (past & past part. steamed; pres. part. steaming)

To emit steam or vapor. "My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, O'er his warm blood, that steams into the air." "Let the crude humors dance In heated brass, steaming with fire intense."

To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor. "The dissolved amber... steamed away into the air."

To move or travel by the agency of steam. "The vessel steamed out of port."

To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.

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Etymology of 'Steamed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Steamed" Quotes from Famous Books

... the afternoon when the smoke of the LAVA KAVA showed south-east. Both boats were waiting as she slowed down in her course, and while they made fast transhipment began. Then she steamed ...

— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield

... drew nearer, the signs of activity among the various units of the motorboat fleet became more acute. The little craft darted hither and thither, finally dividing into two sections, one section on each side of the channel through which the Glasgow steamed toward them. When the big steamship had steamed past, the ten little boats fell into line behind her, moving swiftly forward, ...

— The Boy Allies Under the Sea • Robert L. Drake

... but had barely entered the town when her attention was attracted by a young couple leading a child, who had come out from the second platform, into which the train from Aldbrickham had steamed. They were walking just in front of ...

— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy

... it could not be too brief for the impatient crowd. Its amen was a signal for pandemonium. In a twinkling, every foot rushed back to the dwelling in Bangalang. The grove was alive with revelry. Stakes and rocks reeked with roasting bullocks. Here and there, kettles steamed with boiling rice. Demijohn after demijohn of rum, was served out. Very soon a sham battle was proposed, and parties were formed. The divisions took their grounds; and, presently, the scouts appeared, crawling like reptiles on the earth till they ascertained each other's position, when the armies ...

— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer

... first of May he breakfasted about half-past eight, and then, without seeing his father, drove to Roxham to catch a train that got him up to London about twenty minutes to twelve. As he steamed slowly into Paddington Station, another train steamed out, and had he been careful to examine the occupants of the first-class carriages as they passed him in a slow procession, he might have seen something that would have interested him; ...

— Dawn • H. Rider Haggard

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