From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstewstew1 /stjuː $ stuː/ ●●○ noun 1 [countable, uncountable]DFCOOK a hot meal made by cooking meat and vegetables slowly in liquid for a long time SYN casserole a pot of stew beef stew2 → in a stew
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stew• There were no Pommes Anna to puzzle him, but would he find the croûtons for the top of the chicken stew?• Inside the mirrored towers of its operations complex, it decodes, translates and analyzes the electronic stew known as signals intelligence.• At the Desert Garden Hotel, the buffet line is digging into kangaroo stew.• Human and animal, they all stirred up together in some great mental stew.• Specialities include mussel and onion stew and chicken de vaux.• I was tired, and wanted to recover from the stew.• The stew was on and simmering, and the fragrance in the rectory was intoxicating.• Don't hurry with your stew, er - Vern.stewstew2 verb 1 [transitive]DFCCOOK to cook something slowly in liquid stewed apples2 → let somebody stew→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
stew• Younger hares take well to marinating and roasting rare; older ones need to be braised or stewed.• She could stew in her own juice.• Of course, Kate could have shrugged and let him stew in his own juice, or lack of it.• The air inside was rank with the fishy oils of stewing porpoise.• Had they stewed up a supper of some giant arachnid for Tundrish?Origin stew1 (1300-1400) Old French estuve “cooking pot, heated room”, from Vulgar Latin extufa; → STOVE1 