stewed
/stuːd/
stewed adjective: having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering (see stew). Also the simple past and past participle of stew.
Adjective
stewed (comparative more stewed, superlative most stewed)
- Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering (see stew).
- Of tea: bitter from having been steeped too long.
- Drunk.
- 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.1972, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58
Also used as
stewed is also the simple past and past participle of stew.
Examples of stewed in a sentence
- But a little callaloo soup and a few mouthfuls of stewed goat, saw me much improved.
- Lydia has made stewed chicken, rice, string beans, and the ground provisions that Mr.
- Goulash, a local favorite, was brought up-to-date with seared grass-fed rib-eye, stewed cippolini onions and roasted cherry tomatoes.
Synonyms of stewed
- Adrian Quist
- adrip
- aled up
- all mops and brooms
- arseholed
- a sheet in the wind
- a sheet in the wind's eye
- bedrunken
- befuddled
- beliquored
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Forms of stewed
| comparative | more stewed |
|---|---|
| superlative | most stewed |
Origin of stewed
From stew + -ed.
Words formed from stewed
- stewed as a prune
- stewed to the ears
- stewed to the eyeballs
- stewed to the eyebrows
- stewed to the gills
- unstewed
Phrases with stewed
Words that rhyme with stewed
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- lewd
- rood
- snood
- Jude
- denude
- extrude
- exude
- feud
- nude
- obtrude
- reclude
- subdued
- transclude
- abrood
- delude
- hewed
- intrude
- oud
- pood
- screwed
- seclude
- skewed
- strewed
- thewed
- you'd
- 'tude
- ablude
- abstrude
- accrued
- allude
- blued
- boo'd
- booed
- brewed
- Bude
- chewed
- chud
- clued
- collude
- construed
- cooed
- crewed
- cued
- debuted
- dzud
- fod
- frood
- glued
Questions about stewed
- What does stewed mean?
- Stewed means having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering (see stew).
- What part of speech is stewed?
- Stewed is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce stewed?
- Stewed is pronounced /stuːd/.
Words near stewed in the dictionary
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