stewed
Americanadjective
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cooked by simmering or slow boiling, as food.
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Slang. intoxicated; drunk.
adjective
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(of meat, fruit, etc) cooked by stewing
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(of tea) having a bitter taste through having been left to infuse for too long
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a slang word for drunk
Other Word Forms
- unstewed adjective
Etymology
Origin of stewed
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; stew 1, -ed 2
Example Sentences
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Crucially, I discovered I wasn’t using nearly enough wine or cream when I stewed mushrooms.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
But by then, they had already stewed on their Game 5 clunker long enough.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025
The idea came from dinner at Le Bouchon, where they serve a winter cheesecake with stewed fruit and — yes — granola.
From Salon • Oct. 23, 2025
He stewed in it for days on end, unable to shake it loose.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2025
Afterward he searched, though without hope, for another bite of something—a forgotten onion, a mouthful of stewed lentils left from Gebu’s meal.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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