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- [stoo, styoo]
- /stu, styu/
- /stjuː/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [stoo, styoo]
- /stu, styu/
Definitions of stew word
- verb with object stew to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling. 1
- verb without object stew to undergo cooking by simmering or slow boiling. 1
- verb without object stew Informal. to fret, worry, or fuss: He stewed about his chaotic state of affairs all day. 1
- verb without object stew to feel uncomfortable due to a hot, humid, stuffy atmosphere, as in a closed room; swelter. 1
- noun stew a male or female flight attendant. 1
- idioms stew stew in one's own juice, to suffer the consequences of one's own actions. 1
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Origin of stew
First appearance:
before 1350 One of the 20% oldest English words
1350-1400; Middle English stewen, stuwen to take a sweat bath < Middle French estuver, verbal derivative of estuve sweat room of a bath; see stove1
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Parts of speech for Stew
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adjective
verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
stew popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 96% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
stew usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for stew
noun stew
- anger — Anger is the strong emotion that you feel when you think that someone has behaved in an unfair, cruel, or unacceptable way.
- arduousness — requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult: an arduous undertaking.
- argument — An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.
- blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
verb stew
- anguished — Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.
- bake — If you bake, you spend some time preparing and mixing together ingredients to make bread, cakes, pies, or other food which is cooked in the oven.
- bite one's nails — to chew off the ends of one's fingernails
- blistered — a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury.
- boil — When a hot liquid boils or when you boil it, bubbles appear in it and it starts to change into steam or vapour.
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