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stewed

  [stood, styood]
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–adjective
1. cooked by simmering or slow boiling, as food.
2. Slang. intoxicated; drunk.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME; see stew 1 , -ed 2
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stew

1  [stoo, styoo]
–verb (used with object)
1. to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
–verb (used without object)
2. to undergo cooking by simmering or slow boiling.
3. Informal. to fret, worry, or fuss: He stewed about his chaotic state of affairs all day.
4. to feel uncomfortable due to a hot, humid, stuffy atmosphere, as in a closed room; swelter.
–noun
5. a preparation of meat, fish, or other food cooked by stewing, esp. a mixture of meat and vegetables.
6. Informal. a state of agitation, uneasiness, or worry.
7. a brothel; whorehouse.
8. stews, a neighborhood occupied chiefly by brothels.
9. 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; ME stewen, stuwen to take a sweat bath < MF estuver, v. deriv. of estuve sweat room of a bath; see stove 1

Related forms:
stew⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See boil 1 . 5. ragout.
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stew   (stōō, styōō)   
v.   stewed, stew·ing, stews

v.   tr.
To cook (food) by simmering or boiling slowly.
v.   intr.

  1. To undergo cooking by boiling slowly or simmering. See Synonyms at boil1.

  2. Informal To suffer with oppressive heat or stuffy confinement; swelter.

  3. Informal To be in a state of anxiety or agitation. See Synonyms at brood.

n.  

    1. A dish cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat or fish and vegetables with stock.

    2. A mixture likened to this dish.

  2. Informal Mental agitation: in a stew over the lost keys.

  3. Archaic A brothel. Often used in the plural.


[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).]
stew'y adj.
stewed   (stōōd, styōōd)   
adj.  

  1. Cooked by stewing: stewed prunes.

  2. Informal Intoxicated; drunk.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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