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stew
1[ stoo, styoo ]
verb (used with object)
- to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
verb (used without object)
- to undergo cooking by simmering or slow boiling.
- Informal. to fret, worry, or fuss:
He stewed about his chaotic state of affairs all day.
- to feel uncomfortable due to a hot, humid, stuffy atmosphere, as in a closed room; swelter.
noun
- a preparation of meat, fish, or other food cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat and vegetables.
Synonyms: ,
- Informal. a state of agitation, uneasiness, or worry.
- a brothel; whorehouse.
- stews, a neighborhood occupied chiefly by brothels.
- Obsolete. a vessel for boiling or stewing.
stew
2[ stoo, styoo ]
noun
- a male or female flight attendant.
stew
1/ ²õ³ÙÂá³ÜË /
noun
- a dish of meat, fish, or other food, cooked by stewing
- ( as modifier )
stew pot
- informal.a difficult or worrying situation or a troubled state (esp in the phrase in a stew )
- a heterogeneous mixture
a stew of people of every race
- archaic.usually plural a brothel
- obsolete.a public room for hot steam baths
verb
- to cook or cause to cook by long slow simmering
- informal.intr to be troubled or agitated
- informal.intr to be oppressed with heat or crowding
- to cause (tea) to become bitter or (of tea) to become bitter through infusing for too long
- stew in one's own juiceto suffer unaided the consequences of one's actions
stew
2/ ²õ³ÙÂá³ÜË /
noun
- a fishpond or fishtank
- an artificial oyster bed
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²õ³Ù±ð·Éa·²ú±ô±ð adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of stew1
Origin of stew2
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of stew1
Origin of stew2
Idioms and Phrases
- stew in one's own juice, to suffer the consequences of one's own actions.
More idioms and phrases containing stew
In addition to the idiom beginning with stew , also see in a stew .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
I was tired of winter desserts, of fudgy cakes and stewed fruits, of warm spices clinging to everything like a wool coat.
But what was left under the rubble was a toxic stew of chemicals that authorities said could react unpredictably with water and was too dangerous to simply haul away.
He openly stews in pent-up grievances and discredits the prior administration at every opportunity.
Speaking of what makes up this most delicious and fragrant stew and despite the name, go on and include shellfish: crustaceans, mollusks or bivalves, anything you like.
Ahead of Trump’s joint address last week, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi advised Democrats to let Trump “stew in his own juice†rather than vocally oppose him.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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