STEW


Meaning of STEW in English

I. stew 1 /stjuː $ stuː/ BrE AmE noun

[ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: estuve 'cooking pot, heated room' , from Vulgar Latin extufa ; ⇨ ↑ stove 1 ]

1 . [uncountable and countable] a hot meal made by cooking meat and vegetables slowly in liquid for a long time SYN casserole :

a pot of stew

beef stew

2 . in a stew informal confused or worried about a difficult situation you are in

II. stew 2 BrE AmE verb

1 . [transitive] to cook something slowly in liquid:

stewed apples

2 . let somebody stew informal ( also let somebody stew in their own juice ) to leave someone to suffer the unpleasant results of their own actions instead of helping them:

Let him stew – I'm not going to help him.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.