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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stewed
adjective
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Stewed

Stew \Stew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stewed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stewing.] [OE. stuven, OF. estuver, F. ['e]tuver, fr. OF. estuve, F. ['e]tuve, a sweating house, a room heated for a bath; probably of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stove. See Stove, and cf. Stive to stew.] 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.

Wiktionary
stewed
  1. 1 Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering. See stew. 2 Intoxicated by an excess of alcohol. 3 (Of tea) Bitter from having been steeped too long. v

  2. (en-past of: stew)

WordNet
stewed

adj. cooked in hot water [syn: boiled, poached]

Usage examples of "stewed".

Cold toast points with brambleberry jam, kidneys, bacon, and stewed dried fruit taken from chafing dishes, composed his breakfast.

Stewed pigeons with mortadella sauce and fricasseed breast of goat completed the course.

French fashion, a salad of watercress and violets, a rabbit stewed in herbs, a roast pheasant with artichoke dressing, boiled lupins, a gammon of bacon in pastry, a Turkish dish of meat, buttered peasecods, French bread and sourdough barley bread, a Rhine wine, Italian cream, a parmesan savory and figs.

Every year the mountain McGillens sent thousands of the best Sweet Hush apples by mule wagon and train down to Doreatha, who stewed and pureed and spiced them into fillings for all manner of baked goods.

The rice was hot and so was the bowl of delicious stewed tomatoes and two chap atis The water was refreshingly cool and served in a clean glass.

Light broths became soups, and soon after that she could eat chicken stewed in wine, fish soup, and periwinkles cooked up with peas.

They seated themselves on either side of the hearth while Cumara served them with summer foods: berries and soft cheese, stewed cresses, a cake made of flour, curds, and eggs.

I slumped into the back of the booth and stewed, dead in the water with Jenks leaking dust as he was.

Sunbright hitched the straps on his shoulder, squinted at the sun and their backtrail, tasted the wind for rain, all while Knucklebone stewed for an answer.

Verina came in, uncovering the bowl in which the stewed muskmelon lay.

Hmong who poached bass from the San Luis Reservoir with 1,550-foot setlines, drove deer into ambushes by banging on pots and pans, and served stewed pied-bill grebe for dinner.

Actually, the killers were taking the weekend off-- while everyone else in Washington, the police geniuses especially, stewed in their own juices.

A barefoot servant girl brought rice and beans, stewed vegetables, and a platter of meatballs covered with a thick brown sauce.

There were pickled oysters, cold venison, brook trout stuffed with walnuts and cornmeal and fried in butter, a massive ham studded with peppercorns, puree of squash, snowy mounds of rice, stewed corn, green beans in a rich cream sauce.

Along the Radaune on the way to Ohra, who do we run into but Dulleck and his brother, and there he is, stewed to the gills.