stew
 stew (sto͞o, styo͞o)v. stewed, stew·ing, stewsv. tr.
To cook (food) by simmering or boiling slowly.v. intr.
1. To undergo cooking by boiling slowly or simmering. See Synonyms at boil1.
2. Informal. To suffer with oppressive heat or stuffy confinement; swelter.
3. Informal. To be in a state of anxiety or agitation. See Synonyms at brood.n.
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a. A dish cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat or fish and vegetables with stock.
b. A mixture likened to this dish.
2. Informal. Mental agitation:
in a stew over the lost keys.
3. Archaic. A brothel. Often used in the plural. [Middle English stewen, to bathe in a steam bath, stew, from Old French estuver, possibly from Vulgar Latin *extūpāre, *extūfāre, to bathe, evaporate : Latin ex-, ex- + Vulgar Latin *tūfus, hot vapor (from Greek tūphos, fever. See typhus).] stewʹy adj.
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