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steam up

verb

  1. to cover (windows, etc) or (of windows, etc) to become covered with a film of condensed steam

  2. slang(tr; usually passive) to excite or make angry

    he's all steamed up about the delay

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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But many other ingredients benefit from long, slow cooking, and a pot of chickpeas or beets will steam up your kitchen as pleasantly and fill your belly just as heartily as chicken or beef.

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The fuming concoction sent swirls of steam up to the cave ceiling, where bats flapped their wings, clinging upside down from their claws, and pit vipers uncoiled themselves from thick iron hooks.

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Sex, love, race and power steam up every scene as Louis attempts to define himself through the fogginess all those intersections create.

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So they had their joint audition in separate hotel rooms on Zoom, trying to steam up their relative screens.

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It is not three hours since it was arranged what part each of us was to do; and now Lord Godalming and Jonathan have a lovely steam launch, with steam up ready to start at a moment’s notice.

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