'Stew' definitions:
Definition of 'stew'
From: WordNet
noun
Agitation resulting from active worry; "don't get in a stew"; "he's in a sweat about exams" [syn: fret, stew, sweat, lather, swither]
noun
Food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables
verb
verb
Bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings [syn: stew, grudge]
verb
Cook slowly and for a long time in liquid; "Stew the vegetables in wine"
Definition of 'Stew'
From: GCIDE
- Stew \Stew\, n. [Cf. Stow.]
- 1. A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer. Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An artificial bed of oysters. [Local, U.S.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stew'
From: GCIDE
- Stew \Stew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stewed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stewing.] [OE. stuven, OF. estuver, F. ['e]tuver, fr. OF. estuve, F. ['e]tuve, a sweating house, a room heated for a bath; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stove. See Stove, and cf. Stive to stew.] To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stew'
From: GCIDE
- Stew \Stew\, v. i. To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Stew'
From: GCIDE
- Stew \Stew\, n. [OE. stue, stuwe, OF. estuve. See Stew, v. t.]
- 1. A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- As burning Aetna from his boiling stew Doth belch out flames. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- The Lydians were inhibited by Cyrus to use any armor, and give themselves to baths and stews. --Abp. Abbot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A brothel; -- usually in the plural. --Bacon. South. [1913 Webster]
- There be that hate harlots, and never were at the stews. --Aschman. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A prostitute. [Obs.] --Sir A. Weldon. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stew'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ado,
- agitation,
- agonize,
- all sorts,
- all-overs,
- angst,
- anxiety,
- anxiety hysteria,
- anxiety neurosis,
- anxious bench,
- anxious concern,
- anxious seat,
- anxiousness,
- apply the mind,
- apprehension,
- apprehensiveness,
- assemblage,
- assortment,
- B-girl,
- baffle,
- bafflement,
- bagnio,
- bake,
- barbecue,
- baste,
- bawdy house,
- bawdyhouse,
- be in heat,
- be livid,
- be pissed,
- befuddlement,
- bewilderment,
- bind,
- blanch,
- blaze,
- bloom,
- bluster,
- boil,
- booze up,
- boozehound,
- boozify,
- bordello,
- bother,
- botheration,
- bottle sucker,
- bouillabaisse,
- braise,
- breathless impatience,
- brew,
- broad spectrum,
- broil,
- brothel,
- brown,
- bum,
- burn,
- burn to,
- burst,
- bustle,
- call girl,
- cankerworm of care,
- care,
- carry on,
- cathouse,
- chafe,
- chafing,
- chaos,
- choke,
- chowder,
- churn,
- clip joint,
- cloud,
- clutch,
- coddle,
- combust,
- commotion,
- complication,
- concern,
- concernment,
- confoundment,
- confusion,
- conglomeration,
- cook,
- crib,
- crock,
- crunch,
- curry,
- Cyprian,
- daughter of joy,
- daze,
- den,
- den of thieves,
- den of vice,
- devil,
- dilemma,
- discombobulation,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcert,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- disorder,
- disorderly house,
- disorganization,
- disorientation,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- distill,
- distress,
- disturbance,
- dither,
- dive,
- do,
- do to perfection,
- dread,
- dudgeon,
- dump,
- eagerness,
- elbow bender,
- embarrassing position,
- embarrassment,
- enigma,
- erring sister,
- etuvee,
- excitement,
- fallen woman,
- fear,
- feery-fary,
- ferment,
- fidgetiness,
- fille de joie,
- fine how-do-you-do,
- fire,
- fit,
- fix,
- flame,
- flame up,
- flap,
- flare,
- flare up,
- fleshpots,
- flicker,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- flush,
- fluster,
- flusteration,
- flustration,
- flutter,
- flutteriness,
- foam,
- fog,
- foofaraw,
- foreboding,
- forebodingness,
- frenzy,
- fret,
- fret and fume,
- fretfulness,
- fretting,
- fricassee,
- frizz,
- frizzle,
- fry,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- fume,
- fuss,
- fussiness,
- gallimaufry,
- gasp,
- get excited,
- ginhound,
- glow,
- go on,
- goulash,
- griddle,
- grill,
- gyp joint,
- hammer at,
- hammer away at,
- hardly wait,
- harlot,
- hash,
- haste,
- hasten,
- have a conniption,
- haze,
- heat,
- hell to pay,
- high dudgeon,
- hobble,
- hodgepodge,
- hole,
- hooch hound,
- hooker,
- hot water,
- hotchpot,
- hotchpotch,
- house of assignation,
- house of joy,
- house of prostitution,
- how-do-you-do,
- hubbub,
- huff,
- hullabaloo,
- hustler,
- imbroglio,
- impatience,
- impatientness,
- impetuousness,
- incandesce,
- inquietude,
- Irish stew,
- itch to,
- jam,
- joint,
- jumble,
- jump the gun,
- lair,
- lather,
- lush,
- lusher,
- maelstrom,
- magpie,
- malaise,
- mash,
- maze,
- meat stew,
- medley,
- melange,
- meretrix,
- mess,
- miff,
- mingle-mangle,
- miscellany,
- misgiving,
- mishmash,
- mist,
- mix,
- mixed bag,
- mixture,
- morass,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- mulligan,
- mulligan stew,
- mystery,
- nervous strain,
- nervous tension,
- nervousness,
- nonplus,
- odds and ends,
- olio,
- olla,
- olla podrida,
- omnium-gatherum,
- oven-bake,
- overanxiety,
- overtake,
- oyster stew,
- paella,
- painted woman,
- pan,
- pan-broil,
- panel den,
- panel house,
- pant,
- Paphian,
- parboil,
- parch,
- parlous straits,
- pass,
- pasticcio,
- pastiche,
- patchwork,
- perplexity,
- perturbation,
- pet,
- pickle,
- pinch,
- pins and needles,
- pique,
- pissed off,
- plaster,
- plight,
- poach,
- pollute,
- pother,
- potpourri,
- poule,
- predicament,
- prepare,
- prepare food,
- pretty pass,
- pretty pickle,
- pretty predicament,
- problem,
- prostitute,
- pucker,
- puzzle,
- puzzle over,
- puzzlement,
- quagmire,
- quandary,
- quicksand,
- radiate heat,
- rage,
- ragout,
- raise Cain,
- raise hell,
- raise the devil,
- raise the roof,
- rant,
- rant and rave,
- rave,
- red-light district,
- restiveness,
- restlessness,
- riddle,
- roast,
- ruffle,
- rum hound,
- rummy,
- salad,
- salmagundi,
- sauce,
- saute,
- scald,
- scallop,
- scarlet woman,
- scorch,
- scramble,
- scrape,
- sear,
- seethe,
- seraglio,
- shimmer with heat,
- shirr,
- shuffle,
- simmer,
- sink of iniquity,
- sizzle,
- slough,
- smoke,
- smolder,
- smother,
- smoulder,
- soak,
- solicitude,
- souse,
- spark,
- spasm,
- sponge,
- sporting,
- sporting house,
- spot,
- spurt,
- squeeze,
- squirm,
- state,
- steam,
- stew over,
- stews,
- sticky wicket,
- stifle,
- stir,
- stir-fry,
- stone,
- storm,
- strain,
- strait,
- straits,
- streetwalker,
- suffocate,
- suspense,
- swack,
- swamp,
- sweat,
- sweat and stew,
- sweat it out,
- swelter,
- swillbelly,
- swillbowl,
- swillpot,
- swirl,
- swivet,
- take on,
- tenderloin,
- tense readiness,
- tension,
- think hard,
- throw a fit,
- tiff,
- tight spot,
- tight squeeze,
- tightrope,
- tipsify,
- tizzy,
- to-do,
- toast,
- tricky spot,
- trouble,
- tumult,
- turmoil,
- twitter,
- twitteration,
- unassuredness,
- uneasiness,
- unfortunate woman,
- unholy mess,
- unpatientness,
- unquiet,
- unquietness,
- unsettlement,
- upset,
- vexation,
- vortex,
- wait impatiently,
- what you will,
- whirl,
- white slave,
- whore,
- whorehouse,
- wino,
- worry,
- zeal