stew
verb /stjuː/
/stuː/ Definition
› [T] to cook meat, fish, vegetables, or fruit slowly and gently in a little liquidPreparing food using heatPreparing food › [I] informal to be angry: You're not still stewing about what happened yesterday, are you?Becoming angry and expressing anger › [I] UK to do nothing useful: With jobs so scarce, many young people spend long hours with little to do but drink and stew.Passive and not working
(Definition of stew verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- (almost) burst a blood vessel idiom
- ballistic adjective
- bananas adjective
- bay for blood idiom
- be after sb's blood idiom
- boil verb (BE ANGRY)
- fly off the handle idiom
- fray verb (BECOME ANNOYED)
- fume verb
- get bent out of shape idiom
- get your knickers in a twist idiom
- go ape idiom
- growl verb
- lose your rag idiom
- resent verb
- sb's blood is up idiom
- see red idiom
- seethe verb (FEEL ANGER)
- snap verb (BREAK)
- spare adjective (ANNOYED)
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