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Stew   /stu/   Listen
Stew

noun
1.
Agitation resulting from active worry.  Synonyms: fret, lather, sweat, swither.  "He's in a sweat about exams"
2.
Food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables.
verb
(past & past part. stewed; pres. part. stewing)
1.
Be in a huff; be silent or sullen.  Synonyms: brood, grizzle.
2.
Bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings.  Synonym: grudge.
3.
Cook slowly and for a long time in liquid.



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"Stew" Quotes from Famous Books



... come and see us very often," she said warmly, "only not on Tuesday nights, if you're coming to supper, because we have stew then made from ...
— Suzanna Stirs the Fire • Emily Calvin Blake
... ketch, us parent cook it. Us eat aw kinder wild animal den sech uz coon, possum, rabbit, squirrel en aw dat. Hab plenty uv fish in dem days too. Hab pond right next de white folks house en is ketch aw de fish dere dat we is wan'. Some uv de time dey'ud fry em en den some uv de time dey'ud make uh stew. Dey'ud put uh little salt en onion en grease in de stew en anyt'ing ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves • Works Projects Administration
... him in highly concentrated form by London chemists. One little pill-box of powder is potent enough to make a dozen quart-bottles of effective medicine. And now all these precious powders have melted together, and appear like Dicken's stew at the Inn of the Jolly Sand-boys "all in one delicious gravy." The Doctor is dazed, and offers to white and brown alike a tin box with "Have a pastile, do." He wanders among the half-breeds, offering plasters for weak backs, which they accept with avidity as combining ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron
... The stew he had brought me was very savoury: and I ate it all up; for I had had nothing to eat since supper last night; and, by the time I had done, and had told him very briefly what had passed at Hare Street, ...
— Oddsfish! • Robert Hugh Benson
... of course, unless the Great Spirit saves us. It is the fate of war," replied the chief, with as much indifference as if he was discussing a puppy stew.[4] ...
— The American Family Robinson - or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West • D. W. Belisle


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