Asteam
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Asteam is an adjective meaning Giving off steam, water vapour or smoke.
Meaning
Giving off steam, water vapour or smoke.
More Meanings
- Covered with condensation.
Example Sentences
Sara, her eyeglasses asteam, was stirring a big pot of quahog chowder.
“Go ahead!” he screamed, his glasses asteam and opaque. “We can’t read it anyway! Go ahead! Rain on it!”
In the parcels office there were small cooking stoves, asteam with the aroma of boiling rice, set on the desks among the glue pots and brown paper, cardboard boxes of opened parcels.
1906, Oliver Onions, “Back o’ the Moon” in Back o’ the Moon and Other Stories, London: Hurst and Blackett, Chapter 17, p. 238, The fire burned here and there for a fortnight, and then there came a light shower or two that set the hills a-steam with opaque white smoke.
Synonyms for asteam
Depending on context, synonyms include steaming.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include steaming, aerosteam, vaporific, steamproof, exhalant, semiwater.
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