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[stoo, styoo]

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verb (used with object)

to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.

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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.

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to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about.

to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle.

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noun

a preparation of meat, fish, or other food cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat and vegetables.

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.

Idiom

10.

stew in one's own juice, to suffer the consequences of one's own actions.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English stewen, stuwen to take a sweat bath < Middle French estuver, verbal derivative of estuve sweat room of a bath; see stove¹

Related forms

stew·a·ble, adjective

Synonyms
1. See boil¹. 5. ragout.

Example Sentences

Add onions and potatoes to brats and veggies, add herbs, pour about a cup of the remaining beerwash into the stew.

The stew of hostilities is typical of civil wars, however.

When losses occur participants are left to stew silently.

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Add onions and potatoes to brats and veggies, add herbs, pour about a cup of the remaining beerwash into the stew.

The stew of hostilities is typical of civil wars, however.

When losses occur participants are left to stew silently.

Serve the stew in large bowls with a couple slices of bread on top.

Nature, when it kills them all as they stew in their own toxic waste.

Others go with chicken, either roasted and stuffed with coconut-flavored rice or in a stew.

Tomatoes, white wine, and a satisfying medley of seafood make this hearty stew a great go-to for special entertaining.

But there are plenty of ways to give your sauce, soup or stew that extra umami kick without changing the basic flavor.

The stew here really isn't one, although the appearance and taste are close.

We stew and obsess and make tiny things into giant ones.

Russia is probably now unhelpable, best left to stew in its own juice.

In our quest for energy to heat homes and run machinery, humans are pumping a stew of dangerous chemicals into the air and water.

It's an apt metaphor for what's on offer here: a stew of the high-brow and the surreal.

In the new shopping universe, it will all be part of the stew that's you.

Throw in a rice cooker, and baby, you've got a stew going.

After a ten-mile hike, the first stew of the season was a reward for a hard day of work.

We eat the salta by tearing chunks from the hubcap-sized, blistered, hot pita and dipping them in the stew.

Incorporate roast beef into a stew or stir-fry for a hearty meal.

Artichokes add a real earthiness to this hearty weeknight stew that's a snap to throw together.

Baden-Powell, and is certainly a stew pot of ideas for the adventurous geekdad.

The following day, reheat the stew and adjust seasoning with additional salt and pepper.

Chinese five-spice powder infuses this colorful stew with a warm, anise-y note.

He likes the shows to stew in their own juices before he takes them to the studio.

Serve it tonight in a warming stew or a quick stir-fry.

Create a rich stew with a blend of familiar flavors.

The braised beef-kidney stew in my menu today serves.

She ate two big soup bowls full of stew and an entire dinner plate of rice.

Rich with ale and caramelized onions, this stew provides a thick, hearty base for the fluffy white dumplings that.

Sprinkle with grated cheese and stew another five minutes.

Making plastic is a multi-step process requiring the production and use of a stew of different intermediate chemicals.

Realtor thinks they're being a$$clowns and it might be a good idea to let them stew for a week.

Add to this stew of cretinism the more dangerous aspect of religious belief.

Instead, their reactions are the result of an unpredictable stew of signals from the bug's independent circuits and sensors.

It comes with slaw, stew, and bread to sop up the stew.

The land crab stew was tangy and thick, but not to heavy.

Also good rubbed under chicken skin before roasting and stirred into beef, lamb, or pork stew before the end of cooking.

Among them is this rich, velvety stew made with chicken and condensed milk and thickened with de-crusted white bread.

Savory beef stew and lemony lentils are made for sharing.

French stew with chunks of meat and vegetables poultry: noun: domesticated birds, such as chickens.

Serve your favorite stew or chili over oven-warmed cooked polenta slices.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun Slang.

steward;

stewardess.

Origin:
by shortening

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World English Dictionary

stew¹ (stjuː)

—n
1.	a. a dish of meat, fish, or other food, cooked by stewing
	b. (as modifier): stew pot
2.	informal a difficult or worrying situation or a troubled state (esp in the phrase in a stew)
3.	a heterogeneous mixture: a stew of people of every race
4.	archaic (usually plural) a brothel
5.	obsolete a public room for hot steam baths

—vb
6.	to cook or cause to cook by long slow simmering
7.	informal (intr) to be troubled or agitated
8.	informal (intr) to be oppressed with heat or crowding
9.	to cause (tea) to become bitter or (of tea) to become bitter through infusing for too long
10.	stew in one's own juice to suffer unaided the consequences of one's actions

[C14 stuen to take a very hot bath, from Old French estuver, from Vulgar Latin extūfāre (unattested), from ex-¹ + (unattested) tūfus vapour, from Greek tuphos]

stew² (stjuː)

—n
1.	a fishpond or fishtank
2.	an artificial oyster bed

[C14: from Old French estui, from estoier to shut up, confine, ultimately from Latin studiumstudy]

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Word Origin & History

stew

c.1400, "to bathe in a steam bath," from O.Fr. estuver (Fr. étuver) "bathe, stew," of uncertain origin. Common Romanic (cf. Sp. estufar, It. stufare), possibly from V.L. *extufare "evaporate," from ex- "out" + *tufus "vapor, steam," from Gk. typhos "smoke." Cf. O.E. stuf-bæþ "hot-air

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bath;" see stove. Meaning "to boil slowly, to cook meat by simmering it in liquid" is attested from c.1420. The meaning "to be left to the consequences of one's actions" is from 1656, from fig. expression to stew in one's own juices. Slang stewed "drunk" first attested 1737.

stew

c.1300, "vessel for cooking," from stew (v.). Later "heated room" (late 14c.). The noun meaning "stewed meat with vegetables" is first recorded 1756; Irish stew is attested from 1814. The obsolete slang meaning "brothel" (mid-14c., usually plural, stews) is from an earlier

sense of "public bath house," carried over from O.Fr. and reflecting the reputation of such houses.

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Slang Dictionary

stew definition

n.
a drinking bout. : These frequent stews must stop. You will ruin your health.
n.
a drunkard. : There are three stews sleeping in the alley.
Go to stewed (up). :
n.
a stewardess or steward on an airplane. (Although officially replaced by flight attendat, this term and steward(ess) are still in use.) : My sister is a stew for a major airline.
in.
to fret. : I spent most of last night stewing about my job.
n.
a fretful state. : Don't work yourself into a stew.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

stew

In addition to the idiom beginning with stew, also see in a stew.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

stew

dish of meat, poultry, or fish, usually with vegetables, cooked in liquid in a closed vessel over low heat. Prepared properly, the stew never boils, but simmers at about 190 F (88 C), a process that tenderizes tougher foods and mingles flavours. Meats to be stewed are cut in cubes, fowls are jointed, and fish is cut in steaks or chunks. For brown stews, the meat pieces (and sometimes a portion of the vegetables) are seared in hot fat before the liquid is added. Poultry is often cooked a blanc, without browning, as are delicate veal and lamb stews. Root vegetables (carrots, onions, turnips, parsnips, and potatoes), tomatoes, and celery are commonly added to stews. The sauce that develops as the dish cooks may be thickened by pureeing the vegetables or by incorporating flour or egg yolks.

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"Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped: information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious ottar of roses out of the otter. Sometimes it has seemed to me that I would give worlds if I could retain my facts; but it cannot be. The more I caulk up the sources, and the tighter I get, the more I leak wisdom. Therefore, I can only claim indulgence at the hands of the reader, not justification."

-Mark Twain

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