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1. Cooked in hot water
   "The cook book has 99 practical methods of utilizing stewed beef";
   - boiled, poached
    
2. Very drunk
   "I had travelling money and got stewed in the bar downstairs";
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet, pickled, tanked up, bombed, wasted, liquored up [N. Amer], three sheets to the wind, swacked [N. Amer], juiced [N. Amer], stonkered [Austral, NZ], bladdered [Brit], lit, paralytic [Brit], legless [Brit], steaming, out of it [Brit], stinko, blitzed, mullered [Brit], trashed, hammered, trolleyed [Brit], fried [N. Amer], bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed, half-seas-over [Brit]

1. Be in a huff; be silent or sullen
   - grizzle, brood
    
2. Bear a grudge; harbour ill feelings
   - grudge
    
3. (cooking) cook slowly and for a long time in liquid
   "Stew the vegetables in wine"
    
4. Suffer from intense heat
   - swelter
    
5. Be agitated or irritated
   "don't stew over these small details";
   - fret
    
6. [Brit] Brew tea for too long, so that the flavour is too strong

See also: cooked, drunk, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated

Type of: brood, cook, perspire, pout, resent, sudate, sulk, sweat, worry

Encyclopedia: Stewed