stewing

Verb

stew (third-person singular simple present stews, present participle stewing, simple past and past participle stewed)

1. (ergative, intransitive, transitive) To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
   • I'm going to stew some meat for the casserole.
2. (transitive) To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
3. (figuratively, intransitive) To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
   • It was an honest letter, written by an honest man, then stewing in the Plains on two hundred rupees a month (for he allowed his wife eight hundred and fifty), and in a silk banian and cotton trousers.1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 50

   Synonyms:

   bake, boil, sweat, swelter

4. (figuratively, intransitive) To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.

   Synonyms:

   brood, fret, sweat, worry

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