Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to steam
Participle: steamed
Gerund: steaming
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | steam |
| you | steam |
| he;she;it | steams |
| we | steam |
| you | steam |
| they | steam |
Perfect
| I | have steamed |
| you | have steamed |
| he;she;it | has steamed |
| we | have steamed |
| you | have steamed |
| they | have steamed |
Past
| I | steamed |
| you | steamed |
| he;she;it | steamed |
| we | steamed |
| you | steamed |
| they | steamed |
Pluperfect
| I | had steamed |
| you | had steamed |
| he;she;it | had steamed |
| we | had steamed |
| you | had steamed |
| they | had steamed |
Future
| I | will steam |
| you | will steam |
| he;she;it | will steam |
| we | will steam |
| you | will steam |
| they | will steam |
Future Perfect
| I | will have steamed |
| you | will have steamed |
| he;she;it | will have steamed |
| we | will have steamed |
| you | will have steamed |
| they | will have steamed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | steam |
| you | steam |
| he;she;it | steam |
| we | steam |
| you | steam |
| they | steam |
Perfect
| I | have steamed |
| you | have steamed |
| he;she;it | have steamed |
| we | have steamed |
| you | have steamed |
| they | have steamed |
Imperfect
| I | steamed |
| you | steamed |
| he;she;it | steamed |
| we | steamed |
| you | steamed |
| they | steamed |
Pluperfect
| I | had steamed |
| you | had steamed |
| he;she;it | had steamed |
| we | had steamed |
| you | had steamed |
| they | had steamed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would steam |
| you | would steam |
| he;she;it | would steam |
| we | would steam |
| you | would steam |
| they | would steam |
Perfect
| I | would have steamed |
| you | would have steamed |
| he;she;it | would have steamed |
| we | would have steamed |
| you | would have steamed |
| they | would have steamed |
Imperative
| you | steam |
| we | Let's steam |
| you | steam |
Verbs conjugated like 'steam'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'steam'
seam,
stam,
stead,
steak,
steal,
stean,
stear,
steem,
stem,
stram,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to evoke extreme anger in a person (or animal)
- awrath, gall, get one's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get to, honk off, inflame, infuriate, madden, make someone see red, make someone's blood boil, nark, offend, outrage, provoke, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, raise someone's shag, rattle someone's cage, rile, roil, rub the wrong way, ruffle some feathers, enrage
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English steem, stem, from Old English stēam (“steam, hot exhalation, hot breath; that which emits vapour; blood”), from Proto-Germanic *staumaz (“steam, vapour, breath”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to whirl, waft, stink, shake; steam, haze, smoke”). Cognate with Scots stem, steam (“steam”), West Frisian steam (“steam, vapour”), Dutch stoom (“steam, vapour”), Low German stom (“steam”), Swedish dialectal stimma (“steam, fog”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”).
Sample Sentences
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The captain being gone, we compose ourselves to read, if the place be light enough; and if not, we doze and talk alternately. At one, a bell rings, and the stewardess comes down with a steaming dish of baked potatoes, and another of roasted apples; and plates of pig 's face, cold ham, salt beef; or perhaps a smoking mess of rare hot collops. We fall to upon these dainties; eat as much as [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The track of to-day had the same features as the track of yesterday. There was the swamp, the bush, and the perpetual chorus of frogs, the rank unseemly growth, the unwholesome steaming earth. Here and there, and frequently too, we encountered a solitary broken-down waggon, full of some new settler 's goods. It was a pitiful sight to see one of these vehicles deep in the mire; [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The boat appearing towards evening, we bade adieu to the poor old lady and her vagrant spouse, and making for the nearest landing-place, were soon on board The Messenger again, in our old cabin, and steaming down the Mississippi.
(American Notes for General Circulation)