steameth

Verb

steam (third-person singular simple present steams, present participle steaming, simple past and past participle steamed)

1. (transitive) To cook with steam.
   • The best way to cook artichokes is to steam them.
2. (figuratively, intransitive, literal) To be cooked with steam.
   • The artichokes are steaming in the pot.
3. (transitive) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing.
   • to steam wood or cloth
4. (transitive) To raise steam, e.g. in a steam locomotive.
   • Until recently the mainstay of the line were four 2-8-2 + 2-8-2 Garratts, built for its opening. One is still steamed regularly, and there is no intention of breaking up the others, but the line has now been dieselised.1960 April, H. P. White, “The Railways of Sierra Leone”, in Railway Magazine, page 284
5. (intransitive) To produce or vent steam.
   • See, ſee, my Brother's Ghoſt hangs hovering there, / O're his vvarm Blood, that ſteems into the Air, / Revenge, Revenge it cries.1665 (first performance), John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman […], published 1667, →OCLC, Act III...
6. (intransitive) To rise in vapour; to issue, or pass off, as vapour.
   • Our breath steamed in the cold winter air.

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