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stew - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To cook (food) by simmering or boiling slowly.
- intransitive verb To undergo cooking by boiling slowly or simmering.
- intransitive verb Informal To suffer with oppressive heat or stuffy confinement; swelter.
- intransitive verb Informal To be in a state of anxiety or agitation. synonym: boil.
- noun A dish cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat or fish and vegetables with stock.
- noun A mixture likened to this dish.
- noun Informal Mental agitation.
- noun Archaic A brothel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Dust; a cloud of dust, smoke, or vapor.
- noun A pond, usually artificial, used for domestic purposes; especially, a pool or tank in which fish are kept until needed for the table; a vivarium; a stew-pond.
- noun A breeding-place for tame pheasants.
- noun An artificial bed of oysters: used of the old Roman and also of the modern methods of fattening.
- A Middle English variant of
stow . - To bathe, as in a liquid or a vapor-bath.
- Figuratively, to steep.
- To cook (food) by simmering or slowly boiling; prepare by cooking in a liquid kept at the simmering-point: as, to
stew meat or fruit; to stew oysters. - To be cooked by slowly simmering.
- noun A heated room, especially such a room for bathing purposes; a hothouse; a stove.
- noun Specifically, a hatters' drying-room.
- noun A room; a chamber; a closet.
- noun A brothel; a bagnio: often used in the plural, sometimes with the force of a singular noun.
- noun A lock hospital. See
hospital . - noun A prostitute: sometimes in the plural form with a singular meaning.
- noun A close vessel in which something is cooked or stewed; a stew-pot or stew-pan.
- noun Food cooked by stewing; especially, meat or fish prepared by slow cooking in a liquid.
- noun A state of agitation or ferment; mental disturbance; worry; fuss.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
- noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
- noun Local, U.S. An artificial bed of oysters.
- transitive verb To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling.
- noun obsolete A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
- noun A brothel; -- usually in the plural.
- noun obsolete A prostitute.
- noun A dish prepared by stewing.
- noun colloq. A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
steward orstewardess on anairplane . - noun obsolete A
prostitute . - noun Sussex A
pool in whichfish are kept in preparation for eating. - noun slang A state of agitated
excitement ,worry , and/orconfusion . - verb To
cook (food) by slowlyboiling orsimmering . - verb transitive To
brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong. - verb intransitive, figuratively To
suffer underuncomfortably hot conditions . - verb intransitive, figuratively To be in a state of
elevated anxiety oranger .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb be in a huff; be silent or sullen
- verb bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings
- noun agitation resulting from active worry
- noun food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables
- verb cook slowly and for a long time in liquid
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English stewen, to bathe in a steam bath, stew, from Old French estuver, possibly from Vulgar Latin *extūpāre, *extūfāre, to bathe, evaporate : Latin ex-, ex- + Vulgar Latin *tūfus, hot vapor (from Greek tūphos, fever; see typhus).]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Old French estuve (modern French étuve), from Medieval Latin stupha, perhaps ultimately from Ancient Greek τῦφος ("smoke, steam").
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Abbreviation
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Examples
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They stew them, colonel, actually _stew beefsteaks_!
Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon
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Even so, the term stew doesn't adequately describe its texture, so thick yet not at all gelatinous.
Serious Eats 2009
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You might not have thought so when you opened this entry, but really this stew is a nutrient-rich garden in a bowl!
Archive 2008-05-01 Laura 2008
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You might not have thought so when you opened this entry, but really this stew is a nutrient-rich garden in a bowl!
A Garden In A Bowl: West African Peanut Stew with Chicken, Spinach & Sweet Potatoes Laura 2008
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This stew is the basic meal of the region, consumed as fiesta or daily fare.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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This stew is the basic meal of the region, consumed as fiesta or daily fare.
The Meseta Purepecha 2008
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You probably guessed it, but Istu is the Malalayam (the language of Kerala) version of the English word "stew"!
Archive 2007-03-01 Nupur 2007
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All of this stew is cooking away a few blocks from the historic center of this ancient town the Spanish stole along with the surrounding fertile Jovel Valley from the 400 years later still-pissed off Chamulas.
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Once the apples are sizzling, reduce the heat to low, and cook until the stew is ready, stirring occasionally and letting the onions and apples caramelize.
Indian Spiced Pumpkin Lentil Stew Laura 2009
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Once the apples are sizzling, reduce the heat to low, and cook until the stew is ready, stirring occasionally and letting the onions and apples caramelize.
Archive 2009-10-01 Laura 2009
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Words with the same meaning
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- apply the mind
- apprehension
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- assemblage
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- baffle
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- bagnio
- bake
- barbecue
- baste
- bawdy house
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- be in heat
- be livid
- be pissed
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- bind
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- boozehound
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- bordello
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- bottle sucker
- bouillabaisse
- braise
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- brew
- broad spectrum
- broil
- brood
- brothel
- brown
- bum
- burn
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- burst
- bustle
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- care
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- casserole
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- choke
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- churn
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- cloud
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- conglomeration
- cook
- crib
- crock
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- curry
- daughter of joy
- daze
- den
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- den of vice
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- discombobulation
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- disorder
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- dread
- dudgeon
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- eagerness
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- excitement
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- fear
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- ferment
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- fine how-do-you-do
- fire
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- ginhound
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- hammer at
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- high dudgeon
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- hole
- hooch hound
- hooker
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- hothouse
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- house of assignation
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- hubbub
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- impatience
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- incandesce
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- jam
- joint
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- lair
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- lobscouse
- lush
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- maelstrom
- magpie
- malaise
- mash
- maze
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- medley
- melange
- meretrix
- mess
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- miscellany
- misgiving
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- mulligan
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- mystery
- nervous strain
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- olio
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- olla-podrida
- omnium-gatherum
- oven-bake
- overanxiety
- overtake
- oyster stew
- paella
- painted woman
- pan
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- panel den
- panel house
- pant
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- parch
- parlous straits
- pass
- pasticcio
- pastiche
- patchwork
- pepper pot
- perplexity
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- pet
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- pretty pass
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- problem
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- puzzle
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- quandary
- quicksand
- radiate heat
- rage
- ragout
- raise Cain
- raise hell
- raise the devil
- raise the roof
- rant
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- rave
- red-light district
- restiveness
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- riddle
- roast
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- rum hound
- rummy
- salad
- salmagundi
- sauce
- saute
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- shimmer with heat
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- vivarium
- vortex
- wait impatiently
- what you will
- whirl
- white slave
- whore
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- worry
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Words with the same terminal sound
- Baku
- Blue
- Cebu
- Chengdu
- Chou
- Chu
- Crewe
- Drew
- Ewe
- Few
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- Hu
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- accrue
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- xu
- yew
- you
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- zoo
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