stew

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

stew [stew stews stewed stewing] noun, verb BrE [stjuː] NAmE [stuː]
noun uncountable, countable
a dish of meat and vegetables cooked slowly in liquid in a container that has a lid
•beef stew and dumplings
•I'm making a stew for lunch.

Word Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘cauldron’): from Old French estuve (related to estuver ‘heat in steam’), probably based on Greek tuphos ‘smoke, steam’. The noun sense (mid 18th cent.) is directly from the verb (dating from late Middle English).
Idioms: ↑get be in a stew ▪ ↑let somebody stew in their own juice
 
verb
1. transitive, intransitive ~ (sth) to cook sth slowly, or allow sth to cook slowly, in liquid in a closed dish
•stewed apples
•The meat needs to stew for two hours.
see also ↑stewed
2. intransitive (+ adv./prep.) to think or worry about sth
•I've been stewing over the problem for a while.
•Leave him to stew.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘cauldron’): from Old French estuve (related to estuver ‘heat in steam’), probably based on Greek tuphos ‘smoke, steam’. The noun sense (mid 18th cent.) is directly from the verb (dating from late Middle English).

Example Bank:
•Leave him to stew for a while.

 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  fret, sweat, lather, swither, grudge, grizzle, brood