Stewed

//stuːd// adj, verb, slang

adj, verb, slang ·Common ·Middle school level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of stew form-of, participle, past
Adjective
  1. 1
    Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering (see stew).
  2. 2
    Of tea: bitter from having been steeped too long.
  3. 3
    Drunk. slang

    "Ed Wimperis—big, fleshy, well tailored, stewed—talked television, clamping Joanna's arm and explaining in slow careful words why cassettes were going to change everything."

Adjective
  1. 1
    cooked in hot water wordnet

Synonyms

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poacheda sheet in the winda sheet in the wind's eyeadrian quistadripafflicted

Antonyms

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sober

Example

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"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout."

Etymology

From stew + -ed.

Related phrases

stewed as a prunestewed to the earsstewed to the eyeballsstewed to the eyebrowsstewed to the gills

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