stewed
adjective
[ stjuːd ]
• (of food) cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan.
• "stewed apple"
• drunk.
• "we got stewed at their party"
stew
verb
• (with reference to meat, fruit, or other food) cook or be cooked slowly in liquid in a closed dish or pan.
• "beef stewed in wine"
• remain in a heated or stifling atmosphere.
• "sweaty clothes left to stew in a plastic bag"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘cauldron’): from Old French estuve (related to estuver ‘heat in steam’), probably based on Greek tuphos ‘smoke, steam’. stew1 (sense 1 of the noun) (mid 18th century) is directly from the verb (dating from late Middle English).
