Stewed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stewed
       adj : cooked in hot water [syn: {boiled}, {poached}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "stewed":
     afflicted, baked, bent, boiled, bombed, boozy, braised, broiled,
     browned, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, coddled, cooked,
     crocked, crocko, curried, deviled, drunken, elevated, fired,
     fricasseed, fried, fuddled, grilled, half-seas over, heated, high,
     illuminated, inebriated, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy,
     muzzy, oiled, organized, oven-baked, pan-broiled, parboiled,
     pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, plastered, poached,
     polluted, potted, raddled, roast, roasted, sauteed, scalloped,
     seared, shellacked, shirred, skunk-drunk, smashed, soaked, soused,
     squiffy, steamed, stinko, swacked, tanked, tight, toasted