To stew is to slowly cook food, which results in a soup like food called a stew. To stew also means to brood angrily.
A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
Noun
food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables
Noun
agitation resulting from active worry; "don''t get in a stew"; "he''s in a sweat about exams"
Verb
cook slowly and for a long time in liquid; "Stew the vegetables in wine"
Verb
bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings
Verb
be in a huff; be silent or sullen
n.
A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a
vivarium.
n.
An artificial bed of oysters.
v. t.
To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to
seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without
boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.
v. i.
To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in
heat and moisture.
v. t.
A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes
are furnished; a hothouse.
v. t.
A brothel; -- usually in the plural.
v. t.
A prostitute.
v. t.
A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.
v. t.
A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry;
confusion; as, to be in a stew.
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As burning '92tna from his boiling stew Doth belch out flames.
The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use any armor, and give themselves to baths and stews.2.
There be that hate harlots, and never were at the stews.3.
A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling;
A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
Usage Examples
Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.
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Other Usage ExamplesWhen it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.
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