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stewing

/stoo, styoo/US // stu, styu //UK // (stjuː) //

炖煮,炖菜,焖烧,炖肉

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cook by simmering or slow boiling.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to undergo cooking by simmering or slow boiling.
    • : Informal. to fret, worry, or fuss: He stewed about his chaotic state of affairs all day.
    • : to feel uncomfortable due to a hot, humid, stuffy atmosphere, as in a closed room; swelter.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a preparation of meat, fish, or other food cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat and vegetables.
    • : Informal. a state of agitation, uneasiness, or worry.
    • : a brothel; whorehouse.
    • : stews, a neighborhood occupied chiefly by brothels.
    • : Obsolete. a vessel for boiling or stewing.

Phrases

  • stew in one's own juice
  • in a stew

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • It takes no real effort to add another fish fillet or two to a sheet pan to roast, double a stew or soup recipe, or bake an additional couple of sweet potatoes, for example.

  • If Snoopy was around today, he’d more likely sleep in Charlie Brown’s bed, and dine on organic, cage-free duck stew, served with an herbal supplement to calm his nerves and anxieties.

  • A week’s worth of healthful recipes to jump-start your cooking in the new yearThough this particular iteration of peanut soup was novel to me, groundnut or peanut soups and stews have existed in Africa for generations.

  • I close my eyes, imagining the aromas in the steaming bowl of beef stew I’m going to make my son for dinner.

  • These are great for enchiladas, pot pies, soups, stews, chicken salad, dumplings — the list goes on.

  • By stopping and stewing in a perfectly airless state-room 292 I seem to have got rid of the pleurisy.

  • They require a great deal of stewing, and should be like marmalade when done.

  • I pictured the group telling stories and roasting apples and stewing grapes and frying oysters over the embers.

  • The paws took longest of all to cook, but, treated to lengthy stewing, they became quite digestible.

  • If I sat over my surgery fire all day stewing and fretting, a pretty doctor I should soon become for my patients!