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stewed

/stuːd/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering.
  2. To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong.
  3. To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions.
  4. To be in a state of elevated anxiety or anger.
  5. Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering. See stew.
  6. Intoxicated by an excess of alcohol.
  7. (Of tea) Bitter from having been steeped too long.

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Sources

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