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stew
stew is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A small pond or pool where fish are kept for the table; a vivarium.
- 2noun
An artificial bed of oysters.
- 3transitive verb
To boil slowly, or with the simmering or moderate heat; to seethe; to cook in a little liquid, over a gentle fire, without boiling; as, to stew meat; to stew oysters; to stew apples.
- 4intransitive verb
To be seethed or cooked in a slow, gentle manner, or in heat and moisture.
- 5transitive verb
A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.
- 6transitive verb
A brothel; -- usually in the plural.
- 7transitive verb
A prostitute.
- 8transitive verb
A dish prepared by stewing; as, a stewof pigeons.
- 9transitive verb
A state of agitating excitement; a state of worry; confusion; as, to be in a stew.
- 10noun
food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables
- 11noun
agitation resulting from active worry
"don't get in a stew"
"he's in a sweat about exams"
- 12verb
cook slowly and for a long time in liquid
"Stew the vegetables in wine"
- 13verb
bear a grudge; harbor ill feelings
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- 14verb
be in a huff; be silent or sullen
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