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Stewing

To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.

📖 Definitions of "Stewing"

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.

noun
  1. 1

    The act by which something is stewed.

    "The meat was still tough even after repeated stewings."

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simmeringnounThe act of something that simmers.
boilingnoun(uncountable, countable) The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.

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simmeringnounThe act of something that simmers.
boilingnoun(uncountable, countable) The process of changing the state of a substance from liquid to gas by heating it to its boiling point.
steamnounThe hot gaseous form of water, formed when water changes from the liquid phase to the gas phase (at or above its boiling point temperature).
steepingnounAn instance of something being steeped; a wetting.
stovemakingnounThe manufacture of stoves.
simmernounThe state or process of simmering.
steamingnounThe method of cooking by immersion in steam.
coctionnoun(obsolete) An act of boiling.
steamernoun(cooking) A cooking appliance that cooks by steaming.
stalingnoun(food industry) The process whereby bread goes stale.
elixationnoun(obsolete, chemistry) Boiling in order to produce an elixir
decoctionnounThe process of boiling something down in this way.
cookingnoun(uncountable) The process of preparing food by using heat.
reheatingnounThe act of making something hot again.
stultificationnounThe state of being stultified.
marinationnounThe process of marinating.
heatingnounThe act of making something hot.
sweatingnounThe production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
infusionnounA product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities.
steam bathnounA room or building filled with steam, in which people sit and sweat.

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