steams 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of steam
as in rages
to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger the newspaper's blatantly biased coverage made a lot of readers steam

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steams

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noun

plural of steam

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Recent Examples of steams
Verb
The series left Netflix at the end of June (A Year in the Life remains available there) and currently steams on Hulu and Prime Video. Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026 Lucien Laviscount enters the scene and steams it up as Hot Guy who fandangoes with Laila and then upends the apple cart later on. Randy Myers, Mercury News, 9 July 2026 During that time, the steak essentially steams. Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 15 May 2026 This all comes as the legal fight over the audit steams ahead, over 15 months after 72% of the state signed off on the ballot measure. Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 28 Mar. 2026 Mile End's Bohème Vintage stocks quality wool and denim, and steams them right behind the counter. Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2026 Nothing steams football fans quite like NBC Sports broadcaster Cris Collinsworth praising Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2026 Then, Lim steams the breastmilk in an espresso machine before adding the matcha into the drink. Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026 Humidity often corrodes cables and steams camera lenses. IEEE Spectrum, 3 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steams
Verb
  • The rivalry between Apple and Google rages on, as the latest smartwatches from the tech giants are similarly equipped to offer AI assistance and track your health from your wrist.
    Andrew Gebhart, PC Magazine, 15 Aug. 2026
  • And these attacks drive up insurance costs – further deterring shipping companies while the war rages on.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Southwestern Minnesota will see a few more clouds, and could get clipped by a few showers in the early hours.
    Joseph Dames, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • This was promptly followed by rapidly moving ground-hugging clouds of blistering hot gas and rock fragments, a phenomenon called pyroclastic flow.
    Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Grylls cuts off the animal’s tongue with a knife and boils it over a campfire.
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Mariscos Cortez is a seafood restaurant with flavors from the coast of Mexico that will serve a small menu of ceviche, aguachiles and Jalisco-style shrimp boils.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 July 2026
Verb
  • And the Diderot-Baudelaire-Fried tree abides even as the forest burns mutely round it, match lit by Elon Musk and company.
    Carlos Valladares, ARTnews.com, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Besides losing parts of her fingers on her left hand, the child suffered a cut to her right hand and burns to her left hand and left arm, prosecutors said.
    Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Mars storms the Official Streaming chart with five titles, while one of his most successful collaborations becomes a bestseller again on multiple rosters.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026
  • Although significant, that event was far less powerful than the Carrington Event — or the even rarer storms the new study suggests may be possible.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 17 July 2026
Verb
  • In the very human-scale role of Chef, all that glamour and pageantry seethes just beneath the skin.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026
  • As Seth seethes about his separation from his home country (and the family fortune), Arias interweaves a backstory involving assassination, undisclosed parentage and (as the title suggests) the perilous creatures slithering across the landscape.
    Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
Verb
  • Chinese President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Kuomintang (KMT) party leader Cheng Li-wun in Beijing on Friday, April 10, 2026.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Their first and only home exhibition game arrives Friday night, when the Denver Broncos and former Saints coach Sean Payton (shakes fist) pay a preseason visit.
    Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 10 Aug. 2026

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“Steams.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steams. Accessed 20 Aug. 2026.

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