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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My choice of dumplings has more filling — like chicken soup dumplings, or chicken-and-vegetable steamed dumplings.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
I remember the steamed vegetables that came out one day—it was literally just boiled vegetables they flopped into a catering thing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
The tanker quickly steamed toward India’s biggest refiner, owned by Reliance Industries, where it unloaded the oil on March 8.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 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 watched as the scenery began to change, and the rolling steppe gave way to low grassy hills and then to higher land, with the occasional gorge or cataract; and still the boat steamed south.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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