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.
Part of speech: 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
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for stew is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is stew a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, stew is tagged as verb.
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