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steam
steam is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor.
- 2noun
The mist formed by condensed vapor; visible vapor; -- so called in popular usage.
- 3noun
Any exhalation.
- 4intransitive verb
To emit steam or vapor.
- 5intransitive verb
To rise in vapor; to issue, or pass off, as vapor.
- 6intransitive verb
To move or travel by the agency of steam.
- 7intransitive verb
To generate steam; as, the boiler steams well.
- 8transitive verb
To exhale.
- 9transitive verb
To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc.
- 10noun
water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
- 11verb
cook something by letting steam pass over it
"just steam the vegetables"
- 12verb
clean by means of steaming
"steam-clean the upholstered sofa"
- 13verb
get very angry
"her indifference to his amorous advances really steamed the young man"
- 14verb
travel by means of steam power
"The ship steamed off into the Pacific"
Synonyms
- 15verb
rise as vapor
- 16verb
emit steam
"The rain forest was literally steaming"
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