Usually means: Make foggy with warm vapor.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. steam up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. steam up: Merriam-Webster
  3. steam up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. steam up: Collins English Dictionary
  5. steam (sth) up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. steam up: Wiktionary
  7. steam up: Dictionary.com
  8. steam up: FreeDictionary.org
  9. steam up: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. steam up: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. steam up: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. steam up: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (steam up)

verb:  To become steamy.
verb:  To become coated with condensation.
verb:  (transitive) To bring (a steam boiler) up to working steam pressure: to build up a head of steam inside (a boiler).
verb:  (intransitive) to build up a head of steam.
verb:  (transitive) To cook by steaming.

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