1. Cooked in steam
   "steamed clams"
    
2. [informal] Aroused to impatience or anger; slightly annoyed
   "He got steamed when his computer crashed";
   - annoyed, irritated, miffed [informal], nettled, peeved, pissed [informal], riled, roiled, stung, hacked off [Brit, informal], exasperated, cheesed off [Brit, informal], browned off [Brit, informal], brassed off [Brit, informal]

1. Cook something by letting steam pass over it
   "just steam the vegetables"
    
2. Emit steam
   "The rain forest was literally steaming"
    
3. Rise as vapour
   "Steam rose from the hot springs"
    
4. Clean by means of steaming
   "steam-clean the upholstered sofa";
   - steam clean
    
5. [informal] Get very agitated or angry
   "her indifference to his amorous advances really steamed the young man"
    
6. Travel by means of steam power
   "The ship steamed off into the Pacific";
   - steamer

See also: cooked, displeased

Type of: anger, arise, clean, come up, cook, emit, give off, give out, go, go up, lift, locomote, move, move up, rise, see red [informal], travel, uprise [archaic, literary]

Encyclopedia: Steamed