STEAMED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steamed mean? 

• STEAMED (adjective)
  The adjective STEAMED has 2 senses:

1. cooked in steam

2. aroused to impatience or anger

  Familiarity information: STEAMED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEAMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cooked in steam

Context example:

steamed clams

Similar:

cooked (having been prepared for eating by the application of heat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Aroused to impatience or anger

Synonyms:

annoyed; irritated; miffed; nettled; peeved; pissed; pissed off; riled; roiled; steamed; stung

Context example:

roiled by the delay

Similar:

displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)

 Context examples 

“A house on fire?” asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off again on its way.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"The East African Highland cooking banana is an excellent source of starch. It is harvested green then chopped and steamed," Professor Dale said.

(Golden Bananas High in Pro-Vitamin A Developed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Ghost, at the moment, was uptossed on a sea, and I caught a clear view of a small steamship two or three miles away, rolling and pitching, head on to the sea, as it steamed toward us.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

For three days we steamed north-westwards up a stream which even here, a thousand miles from its mouth, was still so enormous that from its center the two banks were mere shadows upon the distant skyline.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and death its frequent visitor; while there was gloom and fear within its walls; while its rooms and passages steamed with hospital smells, the drug and the pastille striving vainly to overcome the effluvia of mortality, that bright May shone unclouded over the bold hills and beautiful woodland out of doors.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)