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Steam Steamed Steaming Restaurants Coffee Pots Burners Basket

query
If something s_____, it gives off steam.If something steams, it gives off steam.
...restaurants where coffee pots steamed on their burners.
...a basket of steaming bread rolls.
word steam
full-definition
noun
Steam is the hot mist that forms when water boils. Steam vehicles and machines are operated using steam as a means of power.
In an electric power plant the heat converts water into high-pressure steam.
...the invention of the steam engine.
verb
If something steams, it gives off steam.
...restaurants where coffee pots steamed on their burners.
...a basket of steaming bread rolls.
If you steam food or if it steams, you cook it in steam rather than in water.
Steam the carrots until they are just beginning to be tender.
Leave the vegetables to steam over the rice for the 20 minutes cooking time.
...steamed clams and broiled chicken.
inflections steamssteamingsteamed
cefr-level B2

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