steamed

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /stiːmd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /stiːmd/

• Audio (Australia):

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• Rhymes: -iːmd
• Hyphenation: steam‧ed

Adjective

steamed (comparative more steamed, superlative most steamed)

1. Heated and processed by steam, such as being cooked by steaming.

   Antonyms: nonsteamed, unsteamed

   • 1996 April 14, Bill Oakley, “22 Short Films About Springfield” (00:55 from the start), in The Simpsons, season 7, episode 21, spoken by Superintendent Chalmers and Principal Skinner (Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer), segment "Skinner & The Superintendent", production code 3F18:

     Superintendent Chalmers: Why is there smoke coming out of your oven, Seymour? / Principal Skinner: Uh– Oh. That isn't smoke. It's steam. Steam from the steamed clams we're having. Mmm. Steamed clams.

2. (figuratively, informal) Angry; hot under the collar.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:angry

   He was steamed that the car cut him off. It took almost half an hour for him to calm down.

Derived terms

• nonsteamed
• steamed egg
• steamed eggs
• steamed pudding
• steamed up
• unsteamed

Translations

having been cooked by exposure to steam

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蒸 (zing¹), 清蒸 (cing¹ zing¹)

  Mandarin: 蒸 (zh) (zhēng), 清蒸 (zh) (qīngzhēng)

  Min Nan: 蒸 (cheng)

• Czech: dušený (cs)
• Dutch: gestoomd (nl)
• Finnish: höyrytetty (fi), höyrykypsennetty
• French: à la vapeur
• Italian: a vapore
• Japanese: 蒸し (ja) (mushi)
• Mongolian: жигнэсэн (žignesen)
• Persian: بخارپز (fa) (bokhār-paz)
• Spanish: al vapor
• Tagalog: tiim
• Turkish: buğulama (tr)

angry — see also angry

Verb

steamed

1. simple past and past participle of steam

Further reading

• “steamed”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “steamed, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “steamed”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• demates