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Stewed

/stuːd/

To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

📖 Definitions of "Stewed"

verb
  1. 1

    To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

    "I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole."

  2. 2

    To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.

  3. 3

    To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.

  4. 4

    To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.

adjective
  1. 1

    Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering. See stew.

  2. 2

    Intoxicated by an excess of alcohol.

  3. 3

    (Of tea) Bitter from having been steeped too long.

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