stew

Universal Words noun, verb noun [U,C] a dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a container that has a lid: beef stew and dumplings * I'm making a stew for lunch. IDIOMS get (yourself) / be in a stew (about / over sth) (informal) to become/feel very anxious or upset about sth: There's no point getting in a stew about it. verb 1 to cook sth slowly, or allow sth to cook slowly, in liquid in a closed dish: [VN] stewed apples * [V] The meat needs to stew for two hours. seealsoSTEWED 2 [V] [usually +adv./prep.] to think or worry about sth: I've been stewing over the problem for a while. * Leave him to stew. IDIOMS let sb stew in their own juice (informal) to leave sb to worry and suffer the unpleasant effects of their own actions