1. To undergo cooking by boiling slowly or simmering. See synonyms at boil1. 2.Informal To suffer with oppressive heat or stuffy confinement; swelter. 3.Informal To be in a state of anxiety or agitation. See synonyms at brood.
NOUN:
1a. A dish cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat or fish and vegetables with stock. b. A mixture likened to this dish. 2.Informal Mental agitation: in a stew over the lost keys.3.Archaic A brothel. Often used in the plural.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English stewen, to bathe in a steam bath, stew, from Old French estuver, possibly from Vulgar Latin *extpre, *extfre, to bathe, evaporate : Latin ex-, ex- + Vulgar Latin *tfus, hot vapor (from Greek tphos, fever; see typhus).
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