1. Filled with steam or emitting moisture in the form of vapour or mist
   "a steaming kettle";
   - steamy
    
2. [informal] Feeling or showing extreme anger
   "He was steaming when he saw the damage";
   - irate, ireful [archaic], seething, apoplectic [informal], furious, fuming, hopping mad [informal], livid
    
3. [informal] Very drunk
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk [informal], blotto [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], cockeyed [informal], fuddled [informal], loaded [N. Amer, informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], plastered [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], soused [informal], sozzled [informal], stiff [informal], tight [informal], wet [informal], drunk, bombed [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], off one's face [Brit, informal], pickled [informal], stinko [informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], legless [Brit, informal], blootered [UK, dialect], paralytic [Brit, informal], stewed [informal], liquored up [N. Amer], swacked [N. Amer, informal], trashed [informal], trolleyed [Brit, informal], bladdered [Brit, informal], mullered [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], tanked up [informal], screwed [informal], lit up [slang], wasted [informal], out of it [Brit, informal], hammered [informal], blitzed [informal], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], juiced [N. Amer, informal], wrecked [Brit, informal], bevvied [Brit, informal], pixillated, half-seas-over [Brit, informal]
    
4. Feeling uncomfortably hot
   "It was a steaming day, and everyone sought shade";
   - boiling, sweltering, baking, roasting

1. (used of heat) extremely
   "the casserole was steaming hot";
   - piping

1. [Brit, informal] The event of a large gang moving swiftly through a public place, train, etc. stealing things from people
   "Steaming incidents on the underground have increased in recent months"
    
2. The method of cooking by immersion in steam
   "Steaming vegetables helps retain their nutrients better than boiling"

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

Derived forms: steamings

See also: angry, cross, drunk, gone, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped [informal], skunked [informal], wet

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: Steaming