Stew

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  • intransitive verb. To cook (food) by simmering or boiling slowly.
  • intransitive verb. To undergo cooking by boiling slowly or simmering.
  • intransitive verb. To suffer with oppressive heat or stuffy confinement; swelter.
  • intransitive verb. To be in a state of anxiety or agitation. synonym: boil.
  • noun. undefined
  • 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. Mental agitation.
  • noun. A brothel.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A Middle English variant of stow.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
  • noun. An artificial bed of oysters.
  • intransitive verb. To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
  • 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. A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
  • noun. A brothel; -- usually in the plural.
  • noun. A prostitute.
  • noun. A dish prepared by stewing.
  • noun. A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A prostitute.
  • noun. A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.
  • noun. A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.
  • verb. To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
  • verb. To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
  • verb. To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
  • verb. To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
  • noun. A steward or stewardess on an airplane.
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  • 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
  • Word Usage
    "They stew them, colonel, actually _stew beefsteaks_!"
    cross-reference
    Form
    stewed  stewing  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    agitation  brood  pout  resent  sulk  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baku  Blue  Cebu  Chengdu  Chou  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    beef  biscuit  broth  cheese  chop  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    B-girl  Cyprian  Irish stew  Paphian  ado  
    verb-form
    stewed  stewes  stewing  stews