stewed

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English

Etymology

From stew +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stuːd/
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  • Rhymes: -uːd

Adjective

stewed (comparative more stewed, superlative most stewed)

  1. Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering (see stew).
  2. Of tea: bitter from having been steeped too long.
  3. (slang) Drunk.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk
    • 1972, Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58:
      Ed Wimperis—big, fleshy, well tailored, stewed—talked television, clamping Joanna's arm and explaining in slow careful words why cassettes were going to change everything.

Derived terms

Verb

stewed

  1. simple past and past participle of stew

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