stew

noun

/stjuː/

/stuː/

[uncountable, countable]Idioms

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a dish of meat and/or vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a container that has a lid (= cover)
- beef stew and dumplings
- I'm making a stew for lunch.
Topics Foodc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
Stew is used after these nouns:
beef
fish
lamb
…
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Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘cauldron’): from Old French estuve (related to estuver ‘heat in steam’), probably based on Greek tuphos ‘smoke, steam’. The noun sense (mid 18th cent.) is directly from the verb (dating from late Middle English).

Idioms

get (yourself)/be in a stew (about/over something)

(informal) to become/feel very anxious or upset about something
- There’s no point getting in a stew about it.

stew

verb

/stjuː/

/stuː/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they stew	/stjuː/ /stuː/
he / she / it stews	/stjuːz/ /stuːz/
past simple stewed	/stjuːd/ /stuːd/
past participle stewed	/stjuːd/ /stuːd/
-ing form stewing	/ˈstjuːɪŋ/ /ˈstuːɪŋ/

Idioms

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[transitive, intransitive] stew (something) to cook something slowly, or allow something to cook slowly, in liquid in a closed dish
- stewed apples
- The meat needs to stew for two hours.
see also stewedTopics Cooking and eatingc1
[intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) to think or worry about something
- I've been stewing over the problem for a while.
- Leave him to stew.

Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘cauldron’): from Old French estuve (related to estuver ‘heat in steam’), probably based on Greek tuphos ‘smoke, steam’. The noun sense (mid 18th cent.) is directly from the verb (dating from late Middle English).

Idioms

let somebody stew in their own juice

(informal) to leave somebody to worry and suffer the unpleasant effects of their own actions