stew

Meaning

Verb

1. To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
2. To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
3. To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
4. To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
2. A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.
3. A brothel.
4. (obsolete) A prostitute.
5. A dish cooked by stewing.
6. A pool in which fish are kept in preparation for eating.
7. An artificial bed of oysters.
8. (slang) A state of agitated excitement, worry, and/or confusion.

Noun

A steward or stewardess on an airplane or boat.

Synonyms

soup

🍲

simmer

steam

cook

🧑‍🍳

braise

ragout

grudge

boil

fret

brood

sweat

😓

lather

pot

broth

concern

grizzle

worry

seethe

swither

juice

pishpash

gravy

grieve

heebie-jeebies

hoarse

hodgepodge

jitters

mush

mystification

nerves

nervousness

noise

parboil

perplexity

pickle

poach

poaching

pond

puzzlement

queasiness

repent

roar

rumble

scald

scrape

skittishness

sorrow

squirm

suspense

trepidation

unhappiness

upset

vapour bath

whorehouse

worried

😟

hot bath

screaming meemies

food cooked in a pot

grief

salt

🧂

mashed food

bigos

confine in ill-ventilated quarters

unpitched sound

boil continuously

affliction

double boil

agonize

alarm

anxiety

bagnio

bewilderment

boiling

brew

brothel

buzz

care

coddle

constraint

curry

🍛

dish

disquiet

embarrassment

excitement

fidgetiness

fluster

fretfulness

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stʃʉː/

Etymology

From Middle English stewen, stuwen, from the noun above; and also from Middle English stiven, styven (“to bathe, cook, stew”).

Sentences

Apparently , it's the dumplings that make this stew taste so good .