steamed
Americanadjective
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cooked with steam from boiling water.
steamed dumplings.
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Informal. angry.
She's really steamed about what you said yesterday.
Etymology
Origin of steamed
First recorded in 1800–05
Example Sentences
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All the clothes you see, he steamed up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Xu, whose mother died when he was a year old, recalled in a speech how he ate only sweet potato and steamed bread in his school years.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
I could get a hot dog topped with mustard, relish and onions served on a steamed bun.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
"Welcome!" it wrote, greeting the Iranian warship Iris Dena as it steamed into the port of Visakhapatnam to join an international naval gathering.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
He had that narrow-eyed, lockjawed look like he was starting to get steamed up, but you never know exactly where that’s going to lead.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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