1
: cooked by steam
2
: angry sense 1
often used with up

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Both push their brand of brined, smoked and steamed brisket on rye bread by staffs that could best be described as pleasantly salty. Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024 Service is bubbly and peppy, like the K-pop tunes filtering from the restaurant's speakers, swirling around tables of chatty diners passing baskets of steamed dumplings, dishes of kimchi and small bowls brimming with purple sticky rice. Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2024 Cheongju Cheongju, meaning clear, is a colorless, refined rice wine created from steamed rice, nuruk and water that’s fermented for up to a month and brewed in the winter months. Jillian Dara, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024 The new Din Tai Fung offers the chain’s classic Taiwanese and Chinese dishes such as steamed buns, noodle soups, stir-fries and salt-and-pepper pork chops, plus a circular bar and a peek into the kitchen, where cooks hand-form the signature soup dumplings with 18 folds apiece. Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for steamed 

Word History

First Known Use

1802, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of steamed was in 1802

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“Steamed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/steamed. Accessed 23 Dec. 2024.

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