1. Cooked in hot water
   "The cook book has 99 practical methods of utilizing stewed beef";
   - boiled, poached
    
2. [informal] Very drunk
   "I had travelling money and got stewed in the bar downstairs";
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk [informal], blotto [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], cockeyed [informal], fuddled [informal], loaded [N. Amer, informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], plastered [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], soused [informal], sozzled [informal], stiff [informal], tight [informal], wet [informal], drunk, bombed [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], off one's face [Brit, informal], pickled [informal], stinko [informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], legless [Brit, informal], blootered [UK, dialect], paralytic [Brit, informal], liquored up [N. Amer], swacked [N. Amer, informal], steaming [informal], trashed [informal], trolleyed [Brit, informal], bladdered [Brit, informal], mullered [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], tanked up [informal], screwed [informal], lit up [slang], wasted [informal], out of it [Brit, informal], hammered [informal], blitzed [informal], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], juiced [N. Amer, informal], wrecked [Brit, informal], bevvied [Brit, informal], pixillated, half-seas-over [Brit, informal]

1. (cooking) cook slowly and for a long time in liquid
   "Stew the vegetables in wine"
    
2. [Brit] Brew tea for too long, so that the flavour is too strong
   "I forgot about my tea and let it stew for half an hour"
    
3. [informal] Be agitated or irritated
   "don't stew over these small details";
   - fret
    
4. [informal] Bear a grudge; harbour ill feelings
   "She stewed over the insult for weeks";
   - grudge
    
5. [informal] Suffer from intense heat
   "The tourists stewed in the hot sun";
   - swelter
    
6. [informal] Remain in a state of gloomy displeasure or resentment
   "She is stewing because she didn't get what she wanted";
   - sulk, pout, brood, grizzle [informal]

See also: cooked, drunk, gone, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped [informal], skunked [informal]

Type of: cook, experience, feel, perspire, resent, sudate, sweat, worry

Encyclopedia: Stewed