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Showing words for STEW using the English dictionary

4 Letter Words for Stew

ewts, stew, tews, west, wets

3 Letter Words for Stew

est, ewt, set, sew, tes, tew, wet

Definitions for Stew

[1] to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
[2] to undergo cooking by simmering or slow boiling.
[3] Informal . to fret, worry, or fuss: He stewed about his chaotic state of affairs all day.
[4] to feel uncomfortable due to a hot, humid, stuffy atmosphere, as in a closed room; swelter.
[5] a preparation of meat, fish, or other food cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat and vegetables.
[6] Informal . a state of agitation, uneasiness, or worry.
[7] a brothel; whorehouse.
[8] stews, a neighborhood occupied chiefly by brothels.
[9] Obsolete . a vessel for boiling or stewing.
[10] stew in one's own juice , to suffer the consequences of one's own actions.
[11] a male or female flight attendant.
[12] a dish of meat, fish, or other food, cooked by stewing (as modifier ) stew pot
[13] informal a difficult or worrying situation or a troubled state (esp in the phrase in a stew )
[14] a heterogeneous mixture a stew of people of every race
[15] (usually plural) archaic a brothel
[16] obsolete a public room for hot steam baths
[17] to cook or cause to cook by long slow simmering
[18] (intr) informal to be troubled or agitated
[19] (intr) informal to be oppressed with heat or crowding
[20] to cause (tea) to become bitter or (of tea) to become bitter through infusing for too long
[21] stew in one's own juice to suffer unaided the consequences of one's actions
[22] a fishpond or fishtank
[23] an artificial oyster bed

Words related to Stew

brew, soup, pie, fume, seethe, simmer, boil, fret, salmagundi, hash, goulash, medley, jumble, mishmash, potpourri, mulligan, pother, turmoil, dither, tizzy

Words nearby Stew

stevenson, adlai e., stevenson, robert louis, stevia, stevin, stevinus, stew, stew in one's own juice, steward, stewardess, stewardship, stewart

Origin of Stew

21970–1975; shortening of steward or stewardess

Other words from Stew

stew·a·ble , adjective

Word origin for Stew

C14: from Old French estui, from estoier to shut up, confine, ultimately from Latin studium study

Synonyms for Stew

brew, pie, soup, goulash, hash, jumble, medley, mishmash, mulligan, potpourri, salmagundi, mélange, olio, pasticcio