英语词汇“stew”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

stew

(st, sty)

v. stewed, stew·ing, stews

v.tr.

To cook (food) by simmering or boiling slowly.

v.intr.

1. To undergo cooking by boiling slowly or simmering.

2. Informal To suffer with oppressive heat or stuffy confinement; swelter.

3. Informal To be in a state of anxiety or agitation. See Synonyms at boil¹.

a. A dish cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat or fish and vegetables with stock.

b. A mixture likened to this dish.

2. Informal Mental agitation: in a stew over the lost keys.

3. often stews Archaic A brothel.

[Middle English stewen, to bathe in a steam bath, stew, from Old French estuver, possibly from Vulgar Latin *extūpāre, *extūfāre, to bathe, evaporate : Latin ex-, ex- + Vulgar Latin *tūfus, hot vapor (from Greek tūphos, fever; see TYPHUS).]

stewy adj.

单词	stew
释义	stew (st, sty) v. stewed, stew·ing, stews v.tr. To cook (food) by simmering or boiling slowly. v.intr. 1. To undergo cooking by boiling slowly or simmering. 2. Informal To suffer with oppressive heat or stuffy confinement; swelter. 3. Informal To be in a state of anxiety or agitation. See Synonyms at boil¹. n. 1. a. A dish cooked by stewing, especially a mixture of meat or fish and vegetables with stock. b. A mixture likened to this dish. 2. Informal Mental agitation: in a stew over the lost keys. 3. often stews Archaic A brothel. [Middle English stewen, to bathe in a steam bath, stew, from Old French estuver, possibly from Vulgar Latin extūpāre, extūfāre, to bathe, evaporate : Latin ex-, ex- + Vulgar Latin tūfus, hot vapor (from Greek tūphos, fever; see TYPHUS).] stewy* adj.
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