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Meanings of Steal someone’s thunder:

phrase

Win praise for oneself by pre-empting someone else's attempt to impress.

Usage examples:

However, in an apparent copycat career move, lindsay is also recording her own debut album, which s…

idiom

To do what someone else was going to do before they do it, especially if this takes success or praise away from them

Usage examples:

Sandy stole my thunder when she announced that she was pregnant two days before i'd planned to tell…

Meanings of Steal-a-march-on:

idiom

If you steal a march on someone, you get an advantage over that person by acting before they do

Usage examples:

Our rival company managed to steal a march on us by bringing out their software ahead of ours.

Meanings of Stealer:

noun

A person or thing that takes or steals a specified thing.

Usage examples:

A sheep-stealer

Meanings of Stealers:

noun

A person or thing that takes or steals a specified thing.

Usage examples:

A sheep-stealer

Meanings of Stealings:

noun

The action or offence of taking another person's property without permission or legal right and without intending to return it; theft.

Usage examples:

They argue that copying licensed software is a form of stealing

Meanings of Stealth:

noun

Cautious and surreptitious action or movement.

Usage examples:

The silence and stealth of a hungry cat

Meanings of Stealthiest:

adjective

Behaving or done in a cautious and surreptitious manner, so as not to be seen or heard.

Usage examples:

Stealthy footsteps

Meanings of Stealthily:

adverb

In a cautious and surreptitious manner, so as not to be seen or heard.

Usage examples:

I woke up and stealthily crept downstairs

Meanings of Stealthy:

adjective

Behaving or done in a cautious and surreptitious manner, so as not to be seen or heard.

Usage examples:

Stealthy footsteps

Meanings of Steam:

noun

The vapour into which water is converted when heated, forming a white mist of minute water droplets in the air.

Usage examples:

A cloud of steam

verb

Give off or produce steam.

Usage examples:

A mug of coffee was steaming at her elbow

Meanings of Steam-bath:

noun

A period when you sit in a small room containing steam in order to relax and to clean your skin

Usage examples:

She doesn't take steam baths any more., shall we go for a steam bath?, amenities include a sauna, s…

Meanings of Steam-iron:

noun

An electrical iron that has water inside and produces steam to help make clothes smooth

Meanings of Steam-up:

phrasal verb

To become covered with a thin layer of steam

Usage examples:

Going into the warm room steamed my glasses up.

Meanings of Steamer:

noun

A ship, boat, or locomotive powered by steam.

Usage examples:

There were fast new attack transports, slow rust-scarred freighters, small ocean liners, channel st…

Meanings of Steamers:

noun

A ship, boat, or locomotive powered by steam.

Usage examples:

There were fast new attack transports, slow rust-scarred freighters, small ocean liners, channel st…

Meanings of Steamier:

adjective

Producing, filled with, or clouded with steam.

Usage examples:

A small steamy kitchen

Meanings of Steamiest:

adjective

Producing, filled with, or clouded with steam.

Usage examples:

A small steamy kitchen

Meanings of Steaming:

adjective

Giving off steam.

Usage examples:

A basin of steaming water

noun

The process or technique of cooking food by heating it in steam from boiling water.

Usage examples:

Steaming is a good way to cook vegetables as it helps preserve their nutritional value

verb

Give off or produce steam.

Usage examples:

A mug of coffee was steaming at her elbow

Meanings of Steamroll:

verb

Another term for steamroller.

noun

A vehicle whose wheels are large, heavy cylinders that roll over a road surface to make it flat

Usage examples:

He steamrollered the bill through congress.

Meanings of Steamrollered:

verb

(of a government or other authority) forcibly pass (a measure) by restricting debate or otherwise overriding opposition.

Usage examples:

The government's trying to steamroller a law through

noun

A heavy, slow-moving vehicle with a roller, used to flatten the surfaces of roads during construction.

Usage examples:

After each truckload of earth fell, a steamroller flattened it

Meanings of Steamrollering:

verb

(of a government or other authority) forcibly pass (a measure) by restricting debate or otherwise overriding opposition.

Usage examples:

The government's trying to steamroller a law through

noun

A heavy, slow-moving vehicle with a roller, used to flatten the surfaces of roads during construction.

Usage examples:

After each truckload of earth fell, a steamroller flattened it

Meanings of Steamrollers:

noun

A heavy, slow-moving vehicle with a roller, used to flatten the surfaces of roads during construction.

Usage examples:

After each truckload of earth fell, a steamroller flattened it

verb

(of a government or other authority) forcibly pass (a measure) by restricting debate or otherwise overriding opposition.

Usage examples:

The government's trying to steamroller a law through

Meanings of Steamship:

noun

A ship that is propelled by a steam engine.

Usage examples:

The suez canal, opened in 1869, shortened the route east for steamships, although sailing ships sti…

Meanings of Steamships:

noun

A ship that is propelled by a steam engine.

Usage examples:

The suez canal, opened in 1869, shortened the route east for steamships, although sailing ships sti…

Meanings of Steamy:

adjective

Producing, filled with, or clouded with steam.

Usage examples:

A small steamy kitchen