Definitions for stews

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stews stew

Spelling: [stoo, styoo]

IPA: /stu, styu/

Stews is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in stews (esstw).

Definitions for stews

noun

1. a preparation of meat, fish, or other food cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat and vegetables.
2. Informal. a state of agitation, uneasiness, or worry.
3. a brothel; whorehouse.
4. stews, a neighborhood occupied chiefly by brothels.
5. Obsolete. a vessel for boiling or stewing.
6. a male or female flight attendant.

Idioms

1. stew in one's own juice, to suffer the consequences of one's own actions.

verb (used with object)

1. to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.

verb (used without object)

1. to undergo cooking by simmering or slow boiling.
2. Informal. to fret, worry, or fuss:
3. to feel uncomfortable due to a hot, humid, stuffy atmosphere, as in a closed room; swelter.

Origin of stews

1350-1400; Middle English stewen, stuwen to take a sweat bath Middle French estuver, verbal derivative of estuve sweat room of a bath; see stove¹

Examples for stews

Cover them with water, and stew it slowly for an hour, skimming it well.

Pour in three quarts of water, and stew it gently an hour and a half.

Sometimes there'd be a whole flock of guys, and she'd give us a stew or a thick soup.

Cover the pan closely, and let it stew till the kidney is tender.

It will take at least five hours to stew; or more, in proportion to its size.

We can only sit and stew in our conviction that anime is becoming an important port of inspiration.

The heartwarming scent of the stew drifted on a soft breeze of jasmine.

“Gronkowski” itself never manages to sound more erotic than the name of a hearty Polish stew or a D-list WWE performer.

Stray-dog problem under control and plentiful servings of stew available at Olympic hotel restaurants.

stew it slowly for at least four hours or more, in proportion to its size.