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English Dictionary: steamed by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
steamed
adj
  1. cooked in steam; "steamed clams"
  2. aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay"
    Synonym(s): annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Steam \Steam\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Steamed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Steaming}.]
      1. To emit steam or vapor.
  
                     My brother's ghost hangs hovering there, O'er his
                     warm blood, that steams into the air. --Dryden.
  
                     Let the crude humors dance In heated brass, steaming
                     with fire intence.                              --J. Philips.
  
      2. To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.
  
                     The dissolved amber . . . steamed away into the air.
                                                                              --Boyle.
  
      3. To move or travel by the agency of steam.
  
                     The vessel steamed out of port.         --N. P.
                                                                              Willis.
  
      4. To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.
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