stew
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noun 1. food cooked by slow boiling, especially pieces of meat such as beef, veal, lamb, or mutton, and one or more of various vegetables. Stews are served with the sauce produced in cooking.
2. (Informal, Figurative.) a state of worry; fret.
stew
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v.i. 1. to be or be able to be stewed.
2. (Informal, Figurative.) to worry; fret.
Ex. to stew about an imagined insult. Retailers still stew about the taxability of a number of items (Wall Street Journal).
stew
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v.t. to cook by slow boiling in a closed vessel.
Ex. Mother stewed the chicken for a long time.