stew
verb/stjuː/
/stuː/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they stew | /stjuː/ /stuː/ |
| he / she / it stews | /stjuːz/ /stuːz/ |
| past simple stewed | /stjuːd/ /stuːd/ |
| past participle stewed | /stjuːd/ /stuːd/ |
| -ing form stewing | /ˈstjuːɪŋ/ /ˈstuːɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] stew (something) to cook something slowly in liquid in a closed dish; (of food) to be cooked in this way
- stewed apples
- The meat needs to stew for two hours.
Want to learn more?
Find out which words work together and produce more natural sounding English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app.
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.) to think or worry about something
- I've been stewing over the problem for a while.
- Leave him to stew.
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘cauldron’): from Old French estuve (related to estuver ‘heat in steam’), probably based on Greek tuphos ‘smoke, steam’. The noun sense (mid 18th cent.) is directly from the verb (dating from late Middle English).
Idioms
See stew in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarylet somebody stew in their own juice
- (informal) to leave somebody to worry and suffer the unpleasant effects of their own actions
Check pronunciation:
stew