Daily life
steam up
become covered in condensation
If glass or a surface steams up, it becomes covered with water vapour and is difficult to see through.
Hear it in real life
Why are you wiping your glasses?
They have steamed up since I came inside.
My bathroom mirror steams up whenever I take a long shower.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: My glasses steam on when I enter the warm room.
Say: My glasses steam up when I enter the warm room.
The fixed particle is "up," not "on," when glasses become covered with condensation.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
my glasses steam up; the window steamed up
Your turn: say it out loud
My bathroom mirror steams up whenever I take a long shower.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
steam up
become covered in condensation
“My bathroom mirror steams up whenever I take a long shower.”
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