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Past tense of stew

regular verb

The past tense of stew is stewed. The past participle is also stewed.

Forms of stew

Base form (V1)stew /stʃʉː/
Past tense (V2)stewed /stuːd/
Past participle (V3)stewed /stuːd/
Present participlestewing
Third person singularstews

Stewed in a sentence

  • But a little callaloo soup and a few mouthfuls of stewed goat, saw me much improved.2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), page 55. From the entry callaloo
  • Lydia has made stewed chicken, rice, string beans, and the ground provisions that Mr.2009, Elizabeth Nunez, chapter 7, in Anna In-Between, New York: Akashic Books, pages 82–83. From the entry ground provisions
  • Goulash, a local favorite, was brought up-to-date with seared grass-fed rib-eye, stewed cippolini onions and roasted cherry tomatoes.2015 September 4, “In Minnesota’s Iron Range, Midwestern With a Modern Twist”, in The New York Times. From the entry onion
  • The menu, which changes daily, typically includes cold Moroccan tapaslike salads, savory-sweet tagines and couscous with stewed meats and vegetables.2007 November 11, Seth Sherwood, “36 Hours in Marrakesh, Morocco”, in New York Times. From the entry tapaslike
  • We'd always have it stewed in a bastable hung over the kitchen fire way back in those days.2006, Carla Blake, The Irish Cookbook, →ISBN, page 12. From the entry bastable

Meaning of stew

  1. noun A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
  2. noun A heated bath-room or steam-room; also, a hot bath.
  3. noun A brothel.

Full definition of stew

Questions about the past tense of stew

What is the past tense of stew?
The past tense of stew is stewed.
What is the past participle of stew?
The past participle of stew is stewed.
Is stew a regular or irregular verb?
Stew is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: stew (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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